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Alice C. Weinstein Got her college degree at 50, then a master's
Shaker Heights - Alice C. Weinstein of Shaker Heights, a director of Akron's Hebrew High Schools, died Monday at Montefiore Hospice in Beachwood. She was 54 and had pancreatic cancer. Although she did not get her first college degree until she was 50 and earned a master's last year, she was always interested in education. She had been regional educator for the Union of American Hebrew congregations and curriculum coordinator at Fairmount Temple. She was born Alice Epstein in Cleveland. She graduated from Shaker Heights High School and attended Michigan State University for two years. She worked in sales for her father's National Pa per and Packaging Co. for eight years until 1975. She later was assistant to the president of Cleveland College of Jewish Studies. She eventually received her degrees from the college. Weinstein organized an alternative Saturday service at Fairmount Temple, where she taught music and sang in the choir. Last year she was given the congregation's president's award for volunteer activities. She golfed at Oakwood Club for years and was involved with Cleveland Shalom, a program to welcome new residents. During a visit to Israel with her husband, Arthur, Weinstein became involved with Lifeline for the Old, a sheltered workshop. She became its representative in the United States. She supported the Crohn's & Colitis Foundation and the National Council of Jewish Women. In addition to her husband, Weinstein is survived by a son, Adam of Orlando, Fla.; a daughter, Rachel of Shaker Heights; parents, Urvan and Jeanne Epstein of Beachwood; a sister; and a brother. Services were yesterday at Fairmount Temple. They were arranged by Berkowitz-Kumin-Bookatz Memorial Chapel of Cleveland Heights. Memorial contributions may be made to Montefiore Home, 27080 Cedar Rd., Beachwood 44122; or Alice Weinstein High School Scholarship and Special Need Fund c/o Jewish Community Board of Akron, 750 White Pond Dr., Akron 44320.
August 09, 2001
Dottie Elliott University Hospital, Catholic charities volunteer
Shaker Heights - Dottie Elliott died Tuesday at University Hospitals, where she was a longtime volunteer. Elliott, who was 88, also was involved in charities and Catholic organizations. The former Dorothy Mueller was born in St. Louis. She moved to the Cleveland area in 1956 with her husband, the late Campbell "Cam, " who was president of American Shipbuilding Co. and the Greater Cleveland Growth Association. Dorothy Elliott was nicknamed "Flower Lady" because of the floral arrangements she made for many years for patients at University Hospitals. She also had worked with Cath olic Charities and the Christ Child Society. While her husband headed the Growth Association, she aided him in his efforts to broaden it from an organization for the business elite to a more inclusive community group. She accompanied him almost nightly to dinners, benefits and social events to develop a diverse membership. The Shaker Heights resident was a member of Canterbury Golf Club, Cleveland Athletic Club and Quail Ridge Country Club in Boynton Beach, Fla. She golfed into her 80s. Her husband died in 1990. A daughter, Carol Ann, also is deceased. Elliott is survived by a daughter, Mary Frances Katsuranis of Sacramento, Calif.; sons, George C. of Westlake and Michael E. of Newbury; nine grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren. Services will be at 10 a.m. tomorrow at St. Dominic Catholic Church, 3450 Norwood Rd., Shaker Heights. Memorial donations may be made to the American Cancer Society, 1148 Euclid Ave., Cleveland 44115, or the American Red Cross 3747 Euclid Ave., Cleveland 44115. Arrangements are by Brown-Forward Funeral Home of Shaker Heights.
August 09, 2001
Edward J. Johnson Lectured on African history, honored by YMCA
East Cleveland - Edward J. Johnson, a former credit manager at Mt. Sinai Hospital who pursued African history and lectured on the topic, died Friday at Euclid Hospital. He was 78. Johnson served on the board of the East Cleveland YMCA and was named the group's Man of the Year in 1978. Johnson was born in Memphis, Tenn., but was reared in Marion, Ohio. He was a member of the National Honor Society when he graduated from Harding High School. During World War II he was an Army staff sergeant who worked as a draftsman on Guam and Saipan. After the war he served full time with the National Guard in Cleveland. In the late 1950s he became a teller for Cleveland Trust. He then worked at Forest City Hospital until he joined the credit department at Mt. Sinai in 1967. He retired in 1987. He also attended Western Reserve University part time until he graduated. Johnson's avocation was studying West Africa. He wrote an unpublished book on the Songhay Empire that dominated much of the continent in the 16th century. Johnson joined Mt. Zion Congregational Church in the 1960s and served as an usher and deacon. He was president of its Men's Fellowship. He also belonged to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Survivors include his wife of 50 years, Thelma Jane; son, Craig of Maple Heights; and a sister. Services will be at 7 p.m. tomorrow at Mt. Zion Congregational Church, 10723 Magnolia Dr., Cleveland. Arrangements are by E.F. Boyd & Son Funeral Home of Cleveland.
August 09, 2001
Maureen Reagan, daughter of ex-president, dies at 60
Maureen Reagan, who as the daughter of former President Reagan raised national awareness of Alzheimer's disease, died yesterday of malignant melanoma. She was 60. The popular political activist, commentator and author died peacefully in her Granite Bay, Calif., home near Sacramento, said her husband, Dennis C. Revell. Reagan's battle with the deadly skin cancer, diagnosed in 1996, was private at first. She broke her silence in 1998 after a yearlong course of treatment that pushed the disease into remission. In late 2000, the disease was found to have spread. The oldest of the former president's four children, Reagan embraced many different roles during her lifetime, including entertainer, political analyst, political candidate, talk-show host and author. She devoted most of her last years to raising awareness of the memory-robbing and fatal disease that made her father the most famous Alzheimer's patient in the world. As a board member and No. 1 spokeswoman for the Chicago-based Alzheimer's Association, she lobbied for more research money and early intervention and raised millions of dollars to combat the malady that affects 4 million Americans. Reagan, nicknamed "Mermie" by her father, grew up in Hollywood, but hers was not an easy childhood. Her father and her mother, actress Jane Wyman, divorced when she was 7 and she was packed off to a school in Palos Verdes, a seaside community in Los Angeles County, returning home on weekends. Her half-sister Patti, one of Ronald Reagan's two children with second wife Nancy, did not learn they were related until Patti was 7 and Maureen was 19. In addition to Revell, survivors include their daughter, Rita, 16; her father and stepmother; her mother; her brother Michael; half-sister Patti Davis, and half-brother Ronald Reagan Jr. A public memorial service and Mass are scheduled for Saturday in Sacramento, followed by private burial.
August 09, 2001
Charles S. Schollenberger, chemist
Hudson - Charles S. Schollenberger, a B.F. Goodrich Corp. chemist who invented Estane, a thermoplastic polyurethane used in cable coverings, videotape and artificial heart valves, died Friday at the Sumner on Merriman Nursing Home in Akron.
The 79-year-old Hudson resident was hired by Goodrich in 1947 to develop a new elastomer, a synthetic polymer that acts like rubber.
In 1952, Schollenberger applied for the patent for his invention, but he continued product development.
His creation was the only thermoplastic polyurethane on the market, when it made its debut with the Estane trademark in 1958.
The strong yet flexible abrasion-resistant material was used in textile coatings, tennis shoe soles and automobile parts. Its adhe sive properties made it an ideal binder for mag netic tape used in computers, videos and sound recordings.
By the time Schollenberger retired in 1984, Estane was responsible for about one-third of Goodrich's sales of specialty chemicals.
Schollenberger, who held 18 U.S. and 10 foreign patents, received the Urethane Medal from Great Britain's Plastics and Rubber Group in 1989 and two awards from the American Chemical Society in the 1990s.
The Wooster native graduated from Wooster High School in 1940 and the College of Wooster in 1943. In 1947, he earned a doctorate in organic chemistry from Cornell University and joined B.F. Goodrich in Akron. A few months later, he was assigned to the company's new research and development center in Brecksville.
Survivors include his wife of 52 years, Rosanne; sons, Charles D. of Prairie Village, Kan., and David K. of Washington, D.C.; and two grandchildren.
Memorial services will be at 2 p.m. tomorrow at the First Congregational Church of Hudson, 47 Aurora St.
Donations may be made to the Secrest Arboretum Endowment, Ohio Agricultural Research & Development Center, 1328 Dover Rd., Wooster 44691.
Johnson-Romito Funeral Home of Hudson is handling arrangements.
02/01/02
Herbert A. Greenwald
Beachwood - Services for Herbert A. Greenwald, past executive director of the Heights Area Chamber of Commerce, will be at 2 p.m. today at the Miller-Deutsch-Bookatz Memorial Chapel, 1985 S. Taylor Rd., Cleveland Heights.
The 82-year-old Beachwood resident died Saturday at South Pointe Hospital in Warrensville Heights.
As executive director of the Heights chamber, Greenwald promoted businesses, commu nity events and suburban living in Shaker Heights, Lynd hurst, Cleveland Heights, Beachwood, University Heights and South Euclid.
He ran his own adver tising agency and the Chamber of Commerce from his home office from the late 1960s until retiring around 1990.
Before starting his own business, he handled advertising for the Kurtz Furniture Co. for 15 years.
Greenwald, a Cleveland native, graduated from Cleveland Heights High School.
He received a bachelor's degree in business administration from Western Reserve University in 1942.
He was a World War II Army veteran and a past governor of the International Platform Association.
He also belonged to Fairmount Temple and the Forest City Masonic Lodge.
Survivors include his wife, Gloria; sons, Marc of Highland Heights and Gary of New Albany, Ohio; two granddaughters; and a brother.
Donations may be made to:
Alzheimer's Association, 12200 Fairhill Rd., Cleveland 44120.
Montefiore Home, 27080 Cedar Rd., Beachwood 44122.
Fairmount Temple, 23737 Fairmount Blvd., Beachwood 44122.
01/22/02
Norman Kay, one of world's great bridge players
Narberth, Pa. - Norman Kay, one of the world's great bridge players, died on Thursday at his home in Narberth. He was 74.
The cause was an acute pulmonary embolism, said his wife, Judy.
Kay had a good claim to be considered the best player who never won a world title. He came close to a world championship title on three occasions in the 1960s, losing each time to the Italian team that dominated international play in that decade. In 1961, he played in Buenos Aires, Argentina, with Sidney Silodor as his partner. In 1967, in Miami Beach and, in 1968, in Deauville, France, he played with Edgar Kaplan. In the Deauville final, the Americans trailed by just 11 imps with five deals remaining, but their opponents held on to win.
01/21/02
John Grigg, conservative journalist, biographer
London - John Grigg, a conservative journalist, biographer and polemicist whose role in British public discourse bore resemblances to that of William F. Buckley Jr. in the United States, died on Dec. 31 in London, where he lived. He was 77.
Betraying in his thinking what he referred to as "the tension between a radical temperament and the conventional spirit of Toryism, " he even dared to criticize the queen in print, comparing her public personality to that of "a priggish schoolgirl."
For his remarks he was publicly struck in the face by a member of the League of Empire Loyalists. Despite this sort of bravado, he was a serious biographer, and his most notable work was a multivolume biography of Lloyd George, prime minister from 1916 to 1922, for whom Grigg's father had worked.
01/21/02
Terry Ehrich, editor of motor news monthly
Albany, N.Y. - Terry Ehrich, for 33 years the publisher and editor in chief of Hemmings Motor News, the monthly magazine that calls itself "the Bible of the old-car hobby, " died on Thursday at the Albany Medical Center in Albany, NY. He was 60.
Ehrich had been ill with lung cancer, which was diagnosed last May, and on Jan. 3, he had a heart attack, a company spokeswoman said.
01/21/02
Samuel J. Vittardi, served under Gen. Patton
Strongsville - Samuel J. Vittardi, 74, who once drove a tank in Gen. George S. Patton's armored division and worked as a sanitation supervisor of Cuyahoga County offices, died Thursday at the Cleveland Clinic Hospital of heart problems.
Vittardi had worked for the county for 30 years before serving six years as the bailiff to Parma Municipal Judge Stephen A. Zona.
Though he was known for his public service, he spent years raising money for St. Bridget Catholic Church in Parma and volunteering at St. John Neumann Catholic Church in Strongsville.
He also had served as the presi dent of the Federation of Italian- American Societies during the 1970s. He ran for Parma clerk of courts in 1969, but he was defeated. His nephew, Martin, serves in that position today.
His family described him as a jokester who could tell a story, as well as a man with compassion for others.
"If he saw someone who needed something, he would fly out the door to help that person, " his wife of 51 years, Jacqueline, said.
In his free time, Vittardi enjoyed telling stories to his family about his days of serving under Patton during World War II.
Vittardi met his wife at a YWCA dance in Cleveland.
She asked him to her school prom, and he married
her a few years later.
Vittardi was born in Cleveland and moved to Parma with his wife when he was 29. He and his family moved to Strongsville in 1978.
Surviving in addition to his wife are sons, Matthew of Parma and Samuel of Strongsville; a daughter, Ann Kurilec of Brunswick; five grandchildren; a great-grandchild; a brother; and two sisters.
Services will be at 10 a.m. tomorrow at St. John Neumann Church, 16271 Pearl Rd., Strongsville.
Arrangements are by Ripepi Funeral Home of Parma.
Memorial contributions can be made to the American Cancer Society.
01/21/02
