title: Daisi Pollard

texts:
<mask> (born May 21, 1980) is an American model, international beauty queen, businesswoman, author, and actress. In 2005, she was crowned Miss Jamaica International, which led her to compete at a higher level. She was the first Jamaican candidate to compete in the Miss Earth 2005, Miss Asia Pacific 2005, and Miss Beauty Queen World 2005, and is the only known candidate to hold three different national titles throughout a single pageant career. In addition to her pageant and modeling career, she has embarked on other endeavors, which include business ventures, public speaking engagements, books, and appearances in films and television. <mask> is involved in charity work for various causes, most notably her association with meningitis. Early life
<mask> was born in Newark, New Jersey, and raised in New York City. She is of Jamaican and Middle-Eastern descent.<mask> Sepulveda was born with a minor birth deformity in her left eye, called an upper eyelid coloboma, which hindered her early years both socially and professionally as a result of childhood bullying and low self-esteem. She had reconstructive surgery at the age of 22. After her father died, <mask> Sepulveda and her mother moved from New York City to Virginia where her mother remarried. Shortly thereafter, she entered into the foster care system after her mother and step-father were charged with child neglect. At the age of 12, <mask> Sepulveda was adopted by her paternal grandmother and moved to Connecticut. Her grandmother thought she had potential as a model, actor and dancer and enrolled her in the Barbizon School of Modeling in Stamford, Connecticut; she studied theater and ballet concurrently. Modeling
<mask> Sepulveda began modeling at age 12.Her early work involved regular appearances as a showroom model, department store fashion shows, catalogs and runway modeling at the New York Fashion Cafe. Her body of work includes Los Angeles Fashion Week, New York Fashion Week, LA Urban Fashion Week, Jam Vibez magazine, Reggae Planet, Gap, Old Navy, MTV, Lifetime's: How to Look Good Naked (episode 2.2), Bravo’s Launch My Line. "Bare Minimal" (episode 4) and Good Day LA. She has also appeared on international networks TVJ, and CVM's Smile Jamaica and Star World ABS-CBN in Asia. She had small parts in the films King of the Streets by Laguna Productions and Box of Shadows (2010). In 2014, Sepulveda walked for Laurie Elyse in the 2014 New York Couture Fashion Week. In 2015, she made a cameo appearance in the German movie ABC's of Superheroes.She is the spokesmodel for the clothing company VencciLA. Pageants
<mask> Sepulveda has held the following titles: Miss Jamaica International 2005, Miss Asia Pacific International Jamaica 2005,  Miss Earth Jamaica 2005, Miss Beauty Queen World Jamaica 2005, Miss Beauty Queen World 2005, Miss Asia USA Israel 2005, Miss Asia USA 2006, Mrs. Jamaica 2011 and Mrs. Ethnic World International 2012. During the Miss Asia Pacific International 2005 competition in Guangzhou, China, <mask> Sepulveda was most notable for her on-stage protest over the poor treatment of contestants by the organizers. Prior to the pageant's final dress rehearsal, candidates had been told that the rehearsal would just be a "run through" and so many of them declined to wear makeup. However, the candidates were not informed that judges would be present, and that the rehearsal was being taped for television. Many of the delegates felt extremely uncomfortable about the situation and were crying backstage.Being one of the more media-friendly delegates, <mask> Sepulveda decided to speak up about the situation. When it was her turn to hit the stage, she interrupted the taping by walking across the stage to the microphone and emphatically protesting. <mask> Sepulveda was escorted off stage and judges were eventually removed from the rehearsal. In 2011, she represented Jamaican married women in the Mrs. Ethnic World International competition, which took place in Los Angeles, California. During the competition, <mask> Sepulveda performed the Japanese martial art Shurikenjutsu. Some of her sponsors included Laurie Elyse, The Grammy Museum, 1010 Wilshire, and several Martial Arts companies.Through this pageant, she was also able to co-produce and star in a documentary called Living Jamerican, which allowed the viewer an inside look into a day in the life of a Jamaican-American beauty queen. <mask> Sepúlveda was crowned Mrs. Ethnic World International 2012. Charity work
She has volunteered with organizations such as the LA Prom Closet, a nonprofit that gives underprivileged girls the chance to fully enjoy their prom, complete with dress and shoes. She has supported AIDS awareness organizations including the Red Pump Project to support National Women & Girl’s HIV/AIDS Awareness Day, and the TransgiaDivas event organized by the Minority AIDS Project. During her Miss Jamaica International 2005 reign, <mask> Sepulveda promoted computer and technology literacy for the CCGI Foundation in Jamaica, gaining support from Governor General, Sir Howard Cooke, Mayor of Kingston, Desmond McKenzie, Minister of Education, Maxine Henry-Wilson and the Jamaica Tourist Board. From 2006-2008, she toured as a keynote speaker for Barbizon International to promote their $100,000 scholarship program.During her reign as Mrs. Ethnic World International 2012, <mask> Sepulveda focused on a series of small charitable efforts titled Legacy Projects where she noted the significance of showing others how to leave part of yourself behind in small ways. Through the nonprofit Dress for Success, she was able to donate several outfits to help women feel prepared to take on new employment opportunities. <mask> Sepulveda has also partnered with the National Ladies Professional Group, the Asian Professional Exchange, AIDS Project Los Angeles (APLA), the Red Cross. In 2012, <mask> Sepulveda was elected chairwoman of The Meningitis Foundation of America, Inc., having previously been an honorary committee member for the National Meningitis Association. As a survivor of viral meningitis, she felt a need to spread awareness of the disease. She resigned from the position in early 2014.

Business
In 2005 <mask> Sepulveda used her pageant and sponsorship platform to leverage her way into various business opportunities including a modeling agency, real estate, and several micro startups.In 2014, she founded Daisi Media Corp, a digital media company which houses a multi-channel network, a blog network, and manages the digital properties, images, and video for Pollard Sepulveda. The company's most notable digital property is Daisi Jo Reviews, which gives reviews on products in the worlds of fashion, beauty, and other product categories. The site has partnered with brands such as RocksBox, MagnetStreet.com, Andre Lorent, Avon, Healthy Delights, and Thin Tea. Daisi Media Corp. also owns 50% of Venccila.com, for which <mask> Sepulveda is the sole spokesmodel, and several other e-commerce brands. Authorship
<mask> Sepulveda self-published all three of her books through her media company, Daisi Media Corp. She wrote To Be A Queen, a look into what it takes to be a beauty queen, and Starter Model, a guide for new models trying to break into the industry. She also republished her great-grandfather's book,
The Tin Box, originally written by Jerome Aredell Williams which tells the story of an heiress, cowboy, and an oil and cattle con artist during the gold rush era. <mask> Sepulveda wrote the prologue, introduction, and preface.References

External links
 Official Website for <mask> Jo <mask> Sepúlveda
 Official Modeling Portfolio
 LA Times
 Official Website for Ethnic World International Pageants
 NMA Give Kids A Shot Gala

1980 births
Living people
American people of Jamaican descent
Beauty pageant controversies
Jamaican beauty pageant winners
Miss Earth 2005 contestants

masks:
Juél Maddie Daisi Pollard Sepveda
Pollard Sepulveda
Pollard Sepulveda
Pollard
Pollard
Pollard
Pollard
Pollard
Pollard
Pollard
Pollard
Pollard
Pollard
Pollard
Pollard
Pollard
Pollard
Pollard
Pollard
Pollard
Pollard
Daisi
Pollard


title: Casey Blake

type: original

texts:
<mask> (born August 23, 1973) is an American former professional baseball third baseman. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Toronto Blue Jays, Minnesota Twins, Baltimore Orioles, Cleveland Indians, and Los Angeles Dodgers. He had alternated between playing at third base and first base before becoming a full-time third baseman with the Indians. In , <mask> moved to right field to accommodate the Indians' signing of third baseman Aaron Boone, and stayed there for two seasons before moving back to third base. <mask> was drafted twice prior to signing with the Blue Jays: in , he was selected during the 11th round by the Philadelphia Phillies and in , he was taken by the New York Yankees during the 45th round. High school and college
<mask> was a four-sport standout at Indianola High School in Indianola, Iowa, where he played baseball, football, basketball, and participated in track. He was named one of the top ten high school athletes in the history of Iowa.<mask> attended Wichita State University, where he was a three-time All-American, two-time Academic All-American and participated in the College World Series. He batted .320 with 22 home runs and 101 RBIs during his senior year. In 1993, he played collegiate summer baseball with the Hyannis Mets of the Cape Cod Baseball League. Professional career

Toronto Blue Jays
From –, <mask> spent most of his time in the minor leagues. In the Blue Jays minor league system he played for the Hagerstown Suns (1996), Dunedin Blue Jays (1997–98), Knoxville Smokies (1998), St. Catharines Stompers (1999) and Syracuse SkyChiefs (1999–2000). He made his MLB debut on August 14, 1999, against the Oakland Athletics at third base and went 0 for 3 at the plate. He recorded his first hit on August 29 against the Texas Rangers, and his first home run on October 2 against the Cleveland Indians (off pitcher Jim Brower).Minnesota Twins
The Minnesota Twins claimed <mask> off waivers from the Blue Jays in 2000 and played him primarily at AAA with the Salt Lake Buzz (2000) and Edmonton Trappers (2001–02). He appeared in 7 games with the Twins in 2000 and 13 with them in 2001. Baltimore Orioles
<mask> was claimed off waivers by the Baltimore Orioles on September 21, 2001. <mask> appeared in only six games with the Orioles at the end of the 2001 season before they released him. Minnesota Twins
He was picked up again by the Twins in 2002 and played in 9 games for them and 126 with Edmonton that year. Cleveland Indians

In , <mask> became the Indians' everyday third baseman in his first full season in the major leagues. He led the team in games played with 152, hits (143), and doubles (35) while compiling career highs in every offensive category.<mask> started in every spot in the batting order except the leadoff spot, the most common slot being the #2 hole in the lineup. He had a fielding percentage of .952. He was named AL Player of the Week of June 30– July 6. He ended the season with 17 home runs, 67 RBIs, and a .257 batting average in 152 games played. In , <mask> had his finest offensive season to date in his second straight full season in the major leagues as the Indians third baseman. In June, he hit .330 (37-112) with seven home runs and 21 RBI in 28 games. From June 1 through the end the season, he hit .283, with 22 home runs and 68 RBIs in 112 games.He had an AL-low fielding percentage of .939 at third base and led the majors at that position with 26 errors. <mask> signed a two-year contract on January 21, 2004. He finished the season with a .271 batting average, 28 home runs, and 88 RBIs. In 2005, <mask> converted to right field and filled in at third base and first base. He had 56 extra base hits. <mask> made 132 starts in right field, six at third base and four starts at first. In the outfield, he made eight errors in 298 total chances.In 2005, <mask> ended the season with a .241 average, 23 home runs, and 58 RBIs, with 116 K's while batting .084 with runners in scoring position. In , <mask> once again was the Indians' starting right fielder. He ultimately ended up missing much of the season due to injury, playing in only 109 games. <mask> ended the season with a career-high .282 batting average, 19 home runs, and 68 RBIs. Andy Marte's demotion to Triple-A resulted in <mask> taking over once again as the Indians' starting third baseman. <mask> had a 26-game hit streak from May 20 through June 18 during which he hit .317 with seven home runs. On July 3, , <mask> hit a solo home run in the top of the 11th against the Detroit Tigers, which gave Cleveland a three-game lead over Detroit.As the Indians drove for a playoff spot, <mask> hit a walk-off home run against the Kansas City Royals on September 14, 2007. Three days later (again facing the Tigers), <mask> hit another walk-off home run, all but ending the Tigers' Central Division title hopes. <mask> was twice named clutch player of the year in his time with the Indians. Los Angeles Dodgers

On July 26, , <mask> was traded from the Indians to the Los Angeles Dodgers for minor league players Carlos Santana and Jon Meloan. He went 2 for 3 with a double and a run scored in his debut with the Dodgers on July 26. He hit his first home run with the Dodgers on August 2, 2008. <mask> hit .251 with 10 home runs in 58 games with the Dodgers in 2008 and on December 9, signed a three-year extension with the club for $17 million.In 2009, he hit .280 with 18 home runs for the Dodgers and his fielding percentage was the best all-time for a Dodger third baseman. In 2010, he hit .248, his lowest average since 2005, with 17 home runs and 64 RBI. Due to various injuries, <mask> was only able to appear in 63 games for the Dodgers in 2011, hitting .252 with only 4 home runs, his lowest total since 2002. On September 1, he decided to undergo season-ending surgery on his neck to relieve the pain from a pinched nerve that had bothered him all season. On October 4, 2011, the Dodgers declined <mask>'s 2012 option, instead paying him a buyout of $1.25 million and making him a free agent. Colorado Rockies
On December 20, 2011, <mask> signed with the Colorado Rockies. However, he was released before the end of Spring Training on March 27, 2012.<mask> announced his retirement on May 8, 2012. Personal life and beard
<mask> spent time with his wife, four daughters and his son to go to Vero Beach, Florida to meet his mother and father. When asked about his beard, he answers that he grows it simply because he does not like to shave. The beard also helps camouflage him while participating in one of his favorite hobbies, duck hunting. <mask> and his wife began a foundation which donated well over $1,000,000 to the Indianola school district to build the district's athletic, academic and fine arts programs. References

External links

, or Retrosheet, or Pelota Binaria (Venezuelan Winter League)

1973 births
Living people
Akron Aeros players
Albuquerque Isotopes players
American expatriate baseball players in Canada
Baseball players from Des Moines, Iowa
Baltimore Orioles players
Cardenales de Lara players
American expatriate baseball players in Venezuela
Cleveland Indians players
Dunedin Blue Jays players
Edmonton Trappers players
Hagerstown Suns players
Hyannis Harbor Hawks players
Knoxville Smokies players
Lake County Captains players
Los Angeles Dodgers players
Major League Baseball first basemen
Major League Baseball right fielders
Major League Baseball third basemen
Minnesota Twins players
People from Indianola, Iowa
Rancho Cucamonga Quakes players
Salt Lake Buzz players
St. Catharines Stompers players
Syracuse SkyChiefs players
Toronto Blue Jays players
Wichita State Shockers baseball players

masks:
William Casey Blake
Blake
Blake
Blake
Blake
Blake
Blake
Blake
Blake
Blake
Blake
Blake
Blake
Blake
Blake
Blake
Blake
Blake
Blake
Blake
Blake
Blake
Blake
Blake
Blake
Blake
Blake
Blake
Blake
Blake
Blake
Blake


title: Elisha W. Keyes

texts:
<mask> ( ; January 23, 1828 – November 29, 1910) was an American lawyer, politician, postmaster, and local judge. He was the 6th and 22nd Mayor of Madison, Wisconsin, and represented Dane County in the Wisconsin State Assembly. He was Postmaster of Madison from the end of the Civil War until the presidency of Theodore Roosevelt. He is most known for his eight years as Chairman of the Republican Party of Wisconsin and his work building a Republican Party political machine. With the assistance of former Governor Alexander Randall and others, he helped establish the "Madison Regency," a powerful dispenser of political patronage jobs to the Republican Party faithful. "Boss" <mask> became known as a wily political manager, and saw the state Republican party through its evolution from an abolitionist-driven movement to its consolidation as a dominant and enduring force in Wisconsin. Although he had engineered the campaigns of many candidates, <mask>' own quests for national office were unsuccessful, often running against men he had once worked to elect.Early life

<mask> was born in Northfield, Vermont, the son of Captain <mask>, a millwright and inventor. In search of water power to build a mill, Captain <mask> traveled westward to the Milwaukee River valley in 1836 and built a frame house in Milwaukee that winter. His family arrived in June, and <mask> briefly attended a common school in the city. The family traveled westward on foot to Jefferson County, carrying all their provisions with them and nearly starving along the way. His father had staked a claim in Lake Mills where he would later build a sawmill. Dissatisfied with farm life as a child, <mask> attended several terms at Beloit Seminary, where he formed his political beliefs. The outbreak of the Mexican–American War threatened to spread slavery, causing <mask> to become an abolitionist.In 1849 he decided to become a lawyer, and after another term at the Seminary he spent the summer working in the family's new sawmill in Menasha. Opportunities in Madison

In December 1850 he moved to Madison and began reading law at the offices of A. L. Collins & George B. Smith. In 1852 he was appointed to his first government position as a special agent of the post office by Postmaster General N. K. Hall under the administration of President Millard Fillmore. For several months he collected money from Wisconsin and Illinois postmasters for deposit in the St. Louis sub-treasury. He also supplemented his income by selling insurance and operating a telegraph. <mask> was admitted to the bar in November 1852. The next year he became a partner at the newly-named law firm of Collins, Smith & Keyes.In two years Collins would depart for a judgeship, and the firm continued growing as Smith & Keyes before dissolving in 1862. Early politics

Exposed to the heady politics of the state capital, <mask> joined the Whig Party. In 1851 he was a strong campaigner for Leonard J. Farwell for governor. After Farwell's victory <mask> had hoped to be hired as the governor's private secretary, but was not successful. He reasoned that there were many poor "scalawags like myself" seeking a state job. In October 1852 <mask> ran for Dane County District Attorney despite that he had yet to be admitted to the state bar. Defeated at the Whig convention, he was invited to run for the local state assembly seat, but <mask> declined in the face of stronger Democratic opposition.Rising with the Republican Party

Following the introduction of the Kansas–Nebraska bill in Congress, citizens of Ripon, Wisconsin founded the new anti-slavery Republican Party on March 20, 1854. Three months later the state Republican Party was formally organized at a mass convention in Madison. Though <mask> was involved in the formation of the Dane County Republicans, he also showed support for the anti-immigrant American "Know-Nothing" Party, being vice president of the Madison chapter. Regardless, abolitionist Sherman Booth appointed him to the Republican State Central Committee. He rose through the ranks and formed alliances at party conventions, winning election as the Republican candidate for Dane County District Attorney in 1858. Like many state Republicans, <mask> supported Sen. <mask> for president at the 1860 convention in Chicago, but transferred support to Abraham Lincoln after his nomination became imminent. Upon his return to Madison, he and another Republican lifted a rail from an old fence to their shoulders and marched to the capitol to demonstrate support for Lincoln "the Rail Splitter."At the Second Congressional District Republican Convention held that summer in La Crosse, <mask> led a group of young former Whigs of Dane County (including Wisconsin State Journal publishers Horace Rublee and David Atwood) to help secure the nomination of his friend Luther Hanchett for the U.S. Senate, despite Madison Republican Chauncey Abbott having been the presumed favorite. Madison postmaster and machine politician

For several years it had been <mask>' goal to become Madison's first Republican postmaster. To attain this appointment <mask> and his allies persuaded Governor Alexander Randall not to run for the U.S. Senate in 1861, and to back <mask>' friend Judge Timothy O. Howe for that seat. Following Howe's victory, President Abraham Lincoln appointed Keyes Madison Postmaster, which granted him the power to reward Republican supporters with postal jobs, and punish enemies within the party. A year later Randall was appointed by Lincoln as First Assistant Postmaster General, and with Keyes controlled jobs in more than a thousand post offices in the state. Derided by Democrats as the "Madison Regency," this relationship had become the dominant political machine in the state by 1864. Its operation can be typified by Randall's support of lumber baron Philetus Sawyer for congress.He designated <mask> as a special agent of the post office, granting him free rail passes to visit all the postmasters in that district to instruct them to work towards Sawyer's election, which resulted in victory. The Republican machine also had its views trumpeted in the Wisconsin State Journal, thanks to editors David Atwood and Horace Rublee, who was also the state party chairman. Madison mayor

By 1865 <mask> was recognized as a reliable political manager and dubbed the natural choice of the party to run for mayor of Madison. The election happened the day after the Confederate capital was captured, which dampened Democrats' enthusiasm and led to <mask> being elected the first Republican mayor of Madison. His administration presided over a local economy that boomed with the return of soldiers after the war. He pushed for a permanent solution to Madison's muddy streets, and initiated the installation of stone gutters and paved roads. He also encouraged the city's planting of shade trees, and consented to the use of the city treasurer's office as a private library.In 1866 he successfully urged the purchase of the fire department's first steam-powered water pumper. From Johnson ally to Radical supporter

Following Lincoln's assassination, the succession of vice president Andrew Johnson to the presidency caused a split in the Republican Party, in Wisconsin as well as nationally. Although Johnson appointed Gov. Alexander Randall postmaster general, his veto of Freedmen's Bureau legislation caused a rift among Dane County Republicans. <mask> called a "Union meeting" to discuss the issue, where he announced his support for Johnson and his veto. Other party members saw the veto as a betrayal of Republican values, and pressed for the resignation of Sen. James R. Doolittle, another ally of Johnson. As Radical Republicans gained the upper hand in Congress, <mask> kept quiet behind the scenes.Randall warned him that "I want to stand fast by you so don't embarrass me or give your enemies a chance to go to the President and have me ordered to hurt [you] without anything from you to sustain me." <mask> was conspicuously absent from Union Republican meetings and conferences, despite being the party chairman for their 2nd congressional district committee. Democrats claimed that <mask> nevertheless shepherded the nomination of Radical Republican Benjamin F. Hopkins for congress. He also raised money for the party by forcing patronage appointees to contribute. <mask> attended to his duties as mayor and sought re-election in 1866. After the Democrats' favored candidate Simeon Mills declined the nomination, it appeared <mask> would win unopposed. G. W. Heyer, the editor of the Wisconsin Daily Democrat, sought to persuade <mask>. Noland, a local African-American businessman, to run against <mask> as an independent.Noland declined to be part of what he saw as a Democratic ruse, but his name appeared on the ballot nevertheless. Noland declared he was a "Union man," and cast his vote for <mask>, who was re-elected 961 to 298. State party chairman

As president of the state's central Grant and Colfax Club in 1868, <mask> campaigned vigorously for Ulysses S. Grant for president. Democrats derided his efforts as an attempt to keep his job as postmaster and maintain the Republican's political machine. The election was a triumph for the party, winning five of the six congressional seats and Grant carrying the state. A majority in the state legislature also meant that Doolittle's senate seat would go to a Republican in 1869. <mask> passed on candidates Lucius Fairchild, Cadwallader C<mask> and Rublee to support acclaimed Milwaukee lawyer Matthew H. Carpenter, who was duly elected senator by the legislature.Carpenter and congressman Hopkins helped <mask>' reappointment as postmaster by persuading Grant after the president's first meeting with <mask> did not seem promising. Grant also appointed Horace Rublee as consul to Switzerland, leaving the chairmanship of the state party vacant. In mocking Rublee's departure, the Madison Democrat suggested <mask> as his "natural successor." He was elected party chairman in the Republican convention that fall. Keyes kept the party in fighting shape by making use of his allies in the railroads and the press. Leading with a sharp tongue, he became known as "Boss" <mask>. He maintained Republican domination of the state, and secured Grant's winning of Wisconsin a second time in 1872.Despite these successes, other forces were emerging in the state party. Never a wealthy man, <mask>' influence diminished with the rise of Republicans like lumber baron Sawyer and railroad lawyer Angus Cameron, who both would become U.S. senators without his assistance. Following the Panic of 1873, the growth of the reformist Grange movement affected the party in ways that <mask> was reluctant to condemn. The Republicans lost the governorship to Democrat <mask>. Republican maneuvering

In order to regain dominance, the party had to ensure Sen. Carpenter's re-election. Despite Republicans winning a majority of the legislature in 1874, a bolt occurred when they voted for senator, resulting in Carpenter losing the seat to Cameron of La Crosse. The episode led some party members such as Sawyer and <mask> to doubt <mask>' effectiveness as party chairman and called for his resignation.He considered it, but after Sen. Howe told him his exit would ensure Republican victories in the fall elections, <mask> decided to fight for his chairmanship at the next party convention. After defending his record with stirring speeches, he was re-elected 172 to 40. Although never particularly close to Grant, <mask> dutifully rallied state Republicans to vote for the president's choice as his successor, James G. Blaine, at state and national conventions. When Blaine failed to win the nomination, <mask> successfully drove the party machine to give Wisconsin's electoral votes to nominee Rutherford B. Hayes. Ironically, President Hayes' "Order Number 1" would crack down on federal patronage schemes and institute a merit system that would require an exam for a government job, as well as ban mandatory campaign donations from employees. These reforms took away the political tools <mask> needed to exercise power, and he resigned the party chairmanship in 1877. That same year he was appointed to the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents and was chairman of their executive committee.Nevertheless, <mask> attempted to influence local politics through his position of postmaster. In 1880, he heard Robert La Follette Sr. was attempting to run for Dane County district attorney. <mask> summoned La Follette to inform him he was not the preferred candidate and would be opposed. Despite <mask> supporting his Democratic opponent, La Follette won the election. <mask> would continue to oppose La Follette as he later became congressman, governor and senator. Reaching for higher office

After his resignation as party chairman, <mask> knew that to maintain his influence he would have to become a candidate for higher office himself. In early 1878 he began to let his interest in Sen. Howe's seat be known.After a Republican state legislature was secured in November, <mask> was seen as the favorite over Howe and former senator Carpenter, as long as congressman Sawyer did not attempt a bolt with the Democrats. However, <mask> no longer controlled the party machine. While he led on the first ballot, it was Carpenter who eventually prevailed in the caucus and won the seat. <mask> next set his eyes on Sen. Angus Cameron's seat up in 1881, but his plans were foiled when Sawyer entered the contest and was elected in the state legislative caucus. As a consolation the caucus would submit <mask>' name for consideration as President James Garfield's postmaster general. <mask>' allies advised him that Sen. Carpenter was quite ill and would likely not live out his term. After Carpenter died a month later, the Wisconsin State Journal boomed <mask> to fill his seat, but Milwaukee Republicans rejected him in favor of the recently deposed Cameron.Having no luck in statewide contests, <mask> successfully ran for the state assembly in 1880. His victory raised the state constitutional question of whether a legislator could also serve as postmaster. <mask> had refused to resign from the assembly. Issuing an order banning state officers from federal positions, President Chester A. Arthur declined to reappoint Keyes postmaster. He suffered not only a loss of political influence, but also a loss of income from a job he'd held for nearly twenty years. Nevertheless, he ran for congress the following year, but failed to win the nomination. Final years

In February 1889, Governor <mask> appointed <mask> to fill the vacant seat of a municipal judge who had died.In the spring election just weeks later, <mask> was elected to serve out the rest of the term. Three years later he failed to be re-elected, and blamed the allies of La Follette for plotting his defeat. <mask> battled bitterly against the La Follette forces in the state Republican conventions of 1894 and 1896. Now nearly 70 years old, <mask> was in financial straits. He begged the party's "Old Guard" to persuade President <mask> to appoint him to his old job as Madison postmaster, which was achieved on the recommendation of Sen. John C. Spooner. As an acknowledgement of <mask>' decades of work for the party, he was able to finish out his years as postmaster, dying on November 29, 1910 at the age of 82. Personal life

<mask> married his first wife Caroline Stevens in 1854, and she gave birth to their children Joseph, Kate and <mask>.Mrs. <mask> died in 1865. <mask> married his second wife, Mrs. Louisa Sholes, in Dane County on December 4, 1866 and divorced her in 1882, retaining custody of their son Louis. He married his third wife, Eliza Schryver, in Dane County on June 21, 1888. Published works

References

External links

1828 births
1910 deaths
People from Orleans County, Vermont
Wisconsin postmasters
Mayors of Madison, Wisconsin
Members of the Wisconsin State Assembly
Wisconsin Whigs
19th-century American politicians
Wisconsin Republicans

masks:
Elisha William Keyes
Keyes
Keyes
Keyes
Joseph Keyes
Keyes
Elisha
Elisha
Keyes
Keyes
Keyes
Keyes
Keyes
Keyes
Keyes
Keyes
William Seward
Keyes
Keyes
Keyes
Keyes
Keyes
Keyes
Keyes
Keyes
Keyes
Keyes
Keyes
Keyes
Keyes
William H
Keyes
Keyes
Keyes
Keyes
. Washburn
Keyes
Keyes
Keyes
Keyes
Keyes
Keyes
William Taylor
Wasburn
Keyes
Keyes
Keyes
Keyes
Keyes
Keyes
Keyes
Keyes
Keyes
Keyes
Keyes
Keyes
Keyes
Keyes
Keyes
Keyes
Keyes
Keyes
William Hoard
Keyes
Keyes
Keyes
Keyes
William McKinley
Keyes
Keyes
William
Keyes
Keyes


title: Thomas Barbour

texts:
<mask> (August 19, 1884 – January 8, 1946) was an American herpetologist. From 1927 until 1946, he was director of the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ) founded in 1859 by Louis Agassiz at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Life and career
<mask>, the eldest of four brothers, was born in 1884 to Colonel <mask>, and his wife, Julia Adelaide Sprague. <mask> was founder and president of The Linen Thread Company, Inc., a successful thread manufacturing enterprise having much business in the United States, Ireland, and Scotland. Although born on Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, where the family was spending the summer, Barbour grew up in Monmouth, New Jersey, where one of his younger brothers, <mask>, entered the political arena, eventually serving as U.S. Senator from New Jersey from 1931 to 1937 and again from 1938 to 1943. At age fifteen, <mask> was taken to visit Harvard University, which, entranced by its Museum of Comparative Zoology, he later attended.At Harvard, he studied under Alexander Agassiz, son of Louis Agassiz. Having received his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. from that university, <mask> joined the faculty in 1911 when his doctoral dissertation was published, and he took on the position of curator of reptiles and amphibians at the Museum of Comparative Zoology. Eventually he became the Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology and, in 1927, director of the museum. Although primarily interested in reptiles and amphibians, he also studied birds and insects, particularly butterflies. His biological interests, however, were remarkably diversified, and he is considered to be one of the last of a dying breed: a general naturalist. His scientific travels took him through Africa, Asia, North America, South America, and Central America, among other regions. He particularly enjoyed Panama, Costa Rica, and Cuba, which he visited at length on at least thirty occasions beginning in 1908, generally staying in Soledad at the Harvard Botanical Gardens, now known as the Jardin Botanico de Cienfuegos.<mask> served as custodian of these gardens from 1927 until his death in 1946. In his book, Naturalist in Cuba, <mask> writes, "I suspect that I am the only living American naturalist who has visited all parts of the island again and again, for I am not only a Cuban by adoption, but a devoted friend of the land and its people." In addition to the expected scientific discussion of the island's flora and fauna, <mask> provides a description of Cuban society and culture. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1916. In 1923 and 1924, he was one of the scientists and financial benefactors who founded the Barro Colorado Island Laboratory in Panama, location of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. The island, originally a hilltop, sits in the middle of Gatun Lake, which was created when the Chagres River was dammed during the Panama Canal building project. Along with better than 400 scholarly articles, Barbour wrote several books including the autobiographical Naturalist at Large (1943), Naturalist in Cuba (1945), A Naturalist's Scrapbook (1946),  and That Vanishing Eden (1944), which explores the natural world of a remote, undeveloped Florida.In 1906, <mask> married Rosamond Pierce of Brookline, Massachusetts. A two-year honeymoon took them through remote reaches of the Dutch East Indies, India, Burma, Java, China, and New Guinea with Barbour's wife helping him to photograph animals and collect specimens. Their union resulted in six children and eleven grandchildren. The family home was on Clarendon Street in Boston's Back Bay, with summers spent in Beverly Farms, Massachusetts. In 1927 <mask> was made director of the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology and, in 1931, organized and sent an expedition to Australia for the dual purpose of procuring specimens - the museum being "weak in Australian animals and...desires[ing] to complete its series" - and to engage in "the study of the animals of the region when alive." The Harvard Australian Expedition (1931–1932), as it became known, was a six-man venture led by Harvard Professor William Morton Wheeler, with the others being Dr. P. Jackson Darlington, Jr. (a renowned coleopterist), Dr. Glover Morrill Allen and his student Ralph Nicholson Ellis, medical officer Dr. Ira M. Dixon, and William E. Schevill (a graduate-student in his twenties and Associate Curator of Invertebrate Palaeontology). Barbour said at the time "We shall hope for specimens' of the kangaroo, the wombat, the Tasmanian devil and Tasmanian wolf," and the mission was a success with over 300 mammal and thousands of insect specimens returning to the United States.During the last two years of his life he was in failing health, following a blood clot that had developed while he was in Miami. He was at the Museum of
Comparative Zoology as usual on January 4, 1946, and in happy mood at home in Boston that evening. But he was stricken later in the night with cerebral hemorrhage, and died on January 8, without regaining consciousness. Frog drop experiment
For many years, <mask> and Darlington had friendly arguments about <mask>'s advocacy of faunal dispersion by land bridges versus Darlington's advocacy of exreme-wind-borne dispersal of small animals over isolated islands. To test his ideas, Darlington dropped several live frogs from a window on the fifth floor of the Museum. <mask> and a crowd of spectators observed the experiment. The dropped frogs were stunned
and remained still for a few seconds, but almost immediately they started to recover and in a few minutes were hopping normally.Legacy

<mask> is commemorated in the scientific names of the following species and subspecies of reptiles. Also, the street he grew up on was named after him, <mask> Drive, in Melbourne, Florida; the street on which Ballard Park is located. See also
Ballard Park

References
Notes

Bibliography

<mask>, <mask>. Naturalist at Large. Little, Brown and Company; Boston, Massachusetts, 1943. <mask>, <mask>. That Vanishing Eden: A Naturalist's Florida.Little, Brown, and Company (An Atlantic Monthly Press Book); Boston, Massachusetts, 1944. <mask>, <mask>. A Naturalist in Cuba. Little, Brown and Company; Boston, Massachusetts, 1945. <mask>, <mask>. A Naturalist's Scrapbook. Harvard University Press; Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1946.<mask>, <mask> and Charles T. Ramsden. The Herpetology of Cuba (with an introduction by Rodolofo Ruibal). Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles; Missouri, 2003. .
<mask>, <mask> (nephew of <mask>). Our Families (Volumes 1 & 2). Self-printed. 1983. Weeks, Edward.In Friendly Candor. Little, Brown and Company; Boston, Massachusetts, 1959. Loveridge A (1946). "<mask>—Herpetologist, 1884–1946". Herpetologica 3 (2): 33–39. 1884 births
1946 deaths
American herpetologists
American taxonomists
American naturalists
Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Harvard College alumni
Harvard University faculty
20th-century American zoologists
20th-century naturalists
Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni

masks:
Thomas Barbour
Barbour
William Barbour
Colonel Barbour
William Warren Barbour
Thomas Barbour
Barbour
Barbour
Barbour
Barbour
Barbour
Barbour
Barbour
Barbour
Barbour
Thomas Barbour
Thomas Barbour
Barbour
Thomas
Barbour
Thomas
Barbour
Thomas
Barbour
Thomas
Barbour
Thomas
Barbour
Thomas
Thomas Barbour
Thomas Barbour


title: Mariam Vattalil

texts:
<mask> (29 January 1954 – 25 February 1995) – in religious Rani Maria – was an Indian Syro Malabar professed religious and a social worker in the Franciscan Clarist Congregation who worked among the poor within the Diocese of Indore. Vattalil dedicated herself to the catechetical formation and educational instruction during her time as a religious as she moved place to place teaching in different areas; she was vocal in matters of social justice and in social activism which led to her death at the hands of those who were opposed to her efforts in aiding the poor and downtrodden. Her cause of canonization commenced in 2003 and she was titled as a Servant of God. Her beatification received approval from Pope Francis on 23 March 2017 and she was beatified in Indore on 4 November 2017. Life

Childhood and education
<mask> was born in Kerala on 29 January 1954 as the second of seven children to Paily and <mask>. Her baptism was celebrated at the Church of Saint Thomas on the following 5 February with her name being chosen in honor of the Mother of God. Her siblings were: Stephen, Annie, Varghese, Thressiamma, Celine (later became a Franciscan clarist as "Selmy Paul") and Lusy.Vattalil made both her First Communion and Confirmation on 30 April 1966 and often frequented catechism lessons. She studied at a government-run primary school before she commenced her high school studies. . But her greater call was to serve God and this was something that she shared with her cousin Cicily who desired the very same thing. Religious life
Vattalil joined the Franciscan Clarist Congregation at Kidangoor following the completion of her secondary schooling and assumed the religious name of "Rani Maria" upon joining and entering their novitiate. Her cousin Cicily would become "Soni Maria". The two set off for the convent and entered the order on 3 July 1971 for their aspirancy period which concluded on 30 October 1972. Their postulancy spanned from 1 November 1972 to 29 April 1973 and their novitiate spanned from 30 April 1973 to 20 April 1974.Her first profession was made on 1 May 1974 before she was sent to Saint Mary's convent in Bijnor where she arrived on 24 December 1975; she there as a teacher from 8 September 1976 to 7 August 1978. Her duties continued there and she made her final profession of vows on 22 May 1980 at Ankamaly in the church of Saint Hormis. On 21 July 1983 she was transferred to Odagady and arrived there on 25 July where she served as the coordinator of social activities. From 1 June to 31 July 1985 she spent time in silence and solitude at Aluva while later serving as the local superior from 30 May 1989 to 15 May 1992. It was around this time that she received a degree in sociology from the Rewa University. Vattalil was later transferred to Udayanagar on 15 May 1992 and arrived there on 18 May. Murder
Vattalil was murdered in a knife attack due to the hitman Samandar Singh at Nachanbore Hill in Indore on 25 February 1995 while she made her way to Indore in a bus; she had 40 major injuries besides 14 bruises and unto the last breath said: "Jesus!"repeatedly. The murder was arranged because some landlords were offended due to her work among the landless poor. On 25 February 1995 she woke up early for breakfast after having gone to the chapel prior to anyone else joining her there. She and two other religious reached the bus stand to be told that the bus trip was cancelled. The trio decided to return to the convent when they saw the bus with the name 'Kapil' which was the one that she was to travel on. Sister Liza Rose asked if the conductor could reserve a seat for Rani Maria to which the conductor allowed. Sister Liza Rose helped her into the bus and bade her farewell.A man dressed in white kept her bag near the driver and asked her to sit in the back, which was something unusual in the town since the nuns were given front seats whenever in public transport. Vattalil agreed where she was seated with three men who had the intention of killing her. The leader – Jeevan Singh – sat with his guard Dharmendra and Samundar Singh. Jeevan began insulting her before Samundar rose from his seat and asked the driver to stop the bus. Singh broke a coconut against a rock on the road's side and entered the bus distributing the pieces to the passengers. He offered one to her but withdrew it to make a fool out of her before drawing a knife and stabbing her in the stomach. He continued to stab her and dragged her out of the bus, which had stopped, and continued stabbing her.The passengers were too wrought with fear to intervene with some fleeing the scene in panic. The police at 10:45am contacted the nuns to inform them of what had happened and to tell them that their slain sister's remains were still on the side of the road. The distraught nuns contacted the Bishop of Indore George Anathil to inform him of what had happened before Anathil and some priests reached the spot at 2:00pm to find her bloodied corpse which was taken to the episcopal residence to be cleaned and laid in state. Posthumous recognition
Cardinal Oswald Gracias described her work as an "heroic example ... siding with the poor and disadvantaged". A museum in her honour exists in Ernakulam. Her remains were exhumed for inspection and reburial on 18 November 2016 in Indore with the diocesan bishop overseeing the exhumation. Samundar Singh
Singh was convicted of Vattalil's murder and was sentenced to life imprisonment.Vattalil's nun sister – on 31 August 2002 – visited Singh in prison where she expressed her forgiveness. Singh was overcome after witnessing such a gesture and begged for forgiveness for what he had done while expressing repentance. Vattalil's mother visited Singh on 25 February 2003 and kissed his hands as a sign of forgiveness. Singh was released from prison in 2006 due to good conduct. He was pardoned by Vattalil's family, and he is considered one of their own. He was moved to tears when he learned of her impending beatification in March 2017 and expressed his enthusiasm for being able to attend the beatification. Beatification
The beatification process opened on 26 September 2003 after the title Servant of God was conferred upon her and the Congregation for the Causes of Saints granted the "nihil obstat" ('nothing against') to the cause.The subsequent diocesan process took place in Indore from 29 June 2005 to 28 June 2007 and received C.C.S. validation in Rome on 27 November 2009. The C.C.S. received the Positio in 2014 and passed it onto consulting theologians, who on 11 February 2016 voiced their approval to the cause. The C.C.S. later approved this on 21 March 2017. Pope Francis approved the cause on 23 March 2017 and confirmed that <mask> would be beatified on 4 November 2017 in Indore.The postulator assigned to the cause at present is Fra Giovangiuseppe Califano. In popular culture
The documentary entitled The Heart of a Murderer, depicting the murder and subsequent repentance of Samundar Singh, was the winner at the World Interfaith Harmony Film Festival of 2013. References

External links
 Hagiography Circle
 F.C.C. 1954 births
1995 deaths
20th-century Indian educators
20th-century Roman Catholic martyrs
20th-century venerated Christians
Beatifications by Pope Francis
Deaths by stabbing in India
Franciscan missionaries
Franciscan nuns
Roman Catholic missionaries in India
Indian Franciscans
Indian murder victims
Indian Roman Catholic missionaries
Indian Roman Catholic religious sisters and nuns
Indian women activists
Social workers
People from Ernakulam district
Indian Servants of God
Venerated Catholics from Kerala
Victims of anti-Catholic violence
Women educators from Kerala
Educators from Kerala
Indian beatified people
Social workers from Kerala
20th-century women educators

masks:
Rani Maria Vattalil
Mariam Vattalil
Eliswa Vattalil
Vattalil


title: Gordon M. Johnson

texts:
<mask><mask> (born December 16, 1949) is an American Democratic Party politician who has served in the New Jersey Senate since 2022, where he represents the 37th Legislative District, having represented the same district in the New Jersey General Assembly from 2002 to 2022. Biography
<mask> grew up in Englewood, New Jersey where he still resides. His mother was a nurse and his father was a United States Customs Agent. He attended St. Cecilia High School, received a B.S. from St. Thomas Aquinas College in Social Science and Criminal Justice, and an M.A. from Seton Hall University in Administration and Supervision. He served in the United States Army Reserve with the rank of Major (United States), and participated in Operation Desert Storm in 1990 and 1991 and Operation Joint Endeavor in 1996.<mask> retired with the rank of Major from the United States Army Reserve in 2000. He is highly decorated and holds the National Defense Service Medal, Bronze Star, Meritorious Service Medal, Southwest Asia Service Medal, NATO Service Medal, and Kuwait Liberation Medal. He was the Bergen County Sheriff from 2001–2002, and was with the Bergen County Sheriff’s Department since 1999. Mr. <mask> was the first African-American to hold countywide office in Bergen and was the first African-American Sheriff in Bergen County. <mask> served as an Undersheriff in the Bergen County Sheriff’s Department, a position he has filled from 1999-2001 and 2002-2005. In the days following September 11, 2001, <mask> served as commander of the George Washington Bridge as part Bergen County's response to the terrorist attacks. According to the Record, <mask> "has widely been credited with helping to ease the rancor and divisiveness within the department."He served for 24 years with the Englewood Police Department, attaining the rank of Patrol Sergeant. He is also experienced in labor relations and served as President of the State P.B.A. Supervisory Officers Association-Local #216. On June 6, 2006, <mask> won the Democratic Party primary for the Engelwood City Council at-large by unseating incumbent Rev. Vernon Walton; Victory in the primary is tantamount to winning the seat in this Democratic Party stronghold. On Election Day, November 7, 2006, <mask> won the at-large seat, defeating Republican Harry Kanner. <mask> received 5,132 votes, with Kanner receiving 1,501 votes.In August 2008, <mask> announced that he will be stepping down from his Englewood City Council seat by March 2008. While <mask> was grandfathered in from legislation banning dual office holding, he would step down to "follow the will of the people". Legislative career
<mask> began his first term as a State Assemblyman in 2002, running on a ticket with Senator Byron Baer and Assemblywoman Loretta Weinberg. During his first term, he was the prime sponsor of laws to expand DNA collection from violent offenders and requiring towing companies to accept cash and credit card payment. As part of the General Assembly Leadership, Assemblyman <mask> serves in the position of Deputy Speaker. He is the Chair of the Commerce and Economic Development Committee, Vice-Chair of the Judiciary Committee, member of the Budget Committee and also serves on the New Jersey Public Safety Communications Commission. Previously, he served as the Majority Conference Leader, a leadership post in the New Jersey State Assembly during the 2012-2013 legislative session.From 2006 to 2011 Assemblyman <mask> served as Chair of the Assembly Law and Public Safety Committee. <mask> served as Chair of the Assembly Law and Public Safety Committee from 2006 to 2011 before becoming Majority Conference Leader in 2011. During his tenure as Chair, the committee took up legislation to abolish the death penalty. The committee also took up the issue of DNA evidence, expanding the collection of DNA for use by police, defendants, and those currently incarcerated. He has sponsored laws to commemorate the comfort women of World War II, enhanced the Crime Victim's Bill of Rights, and reform the State Board of Medical Examiners. <mask> was the prime sponsor of legislation in the Assembly that would limit rent increases for certain seniors. Other bills have included the "DREAMer's act" a law that expands access to education for certain New Jersey students, rail and transportation safety, and veterans issues.Assemblyman <mask> recently sponsored legislation to expand New Jersey's film and digital media production tax credit program to generate revenue and jobs in New Jersey. During his 2007 campaign for the Assembly, Assemblyman <mask> faced Republican challengers Frank J. Cifarelli and Wojciech J. Siemaszkiewicz. Assemblyman <mask> received 21,228 votes, with the Republican vote at 9,051 and 8,921. In the 2009 general election, <mask> faced Republicans Barry Bellin and Siemaszkiewicz. <mask> received 32,845 votes with the Republicans receiving 16,266 and 15,635 votes. In the general elections in years 2011 and 2013 Assemblyman <mask> outpaced Republican challengers by an almost 2-1 margin. In 2007 <mask>'s contributions to Lyndon LaRouche's political action committee became a subject of criticism.<mask> reportedly gave a total of $1,850 in 2005 and 2006. He apologized repeatedly, saying he regretted not vetting the organization more carefully. <mask> was reelected handily, though he received 1,200 fewer votes than his running mate, a dropoff of over 5%. In 2021, <mask> declared he would seek the District 37 Senate seat due to Loretta Weinberg's announcement that she would be retiring at the end of her term. <mask>'s bid was endorsed by both Governor <mask> and Senator Weinberg, along with the backing of the Bergen County Democratic party. <mask> went against fellow Assemblywoman Valerie Vainieri-Huttle in the 2021 Democratic Primary and won, defeating her 3-1. Committees
Committee assignments for the current session are:
Budget and Appropriations
Commerce
Transportation

District 37
Each of the 40 districts in the New Jersey Legislature has one representative in the New Jersey Senate and two members in the New Jersey General Assembly.The representatives from the 37th District for the 2022—23 Legislative Session are:
Senator <mask><mask> (D)
Assemblywoman Shama Haider (D)
Assemblywoman Ellen Park (D)

References

External links
Senator <mask>'s legislative web page, New Jersey Legislature
New Jersey Legislature financial disclosure forms
2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004
Campaign Website for Weinberg <mask>, and Huttle 2007
New Jersey Voter Information Website 2005

|-

|-

1949 births
20th-century African-American people
21st-century African-American politicians
21st-century American politicians
African-American sheriffs
African-American state legislators in New Jersey
Living people
Members of the New Jersey General Assembly
Military personnel from New Jersey
New Jersey city council members
New Jersey Democrats
New Jersey sheriffs
New Jersey state senators
People from Englewood, New Jersey
Seton Hall University alumni
St. Cecilia High School (New Jersey) alumni
St. Thomas Aquinas College alumni
United States Army officers
United States Army personnel of the Gulf War
United States Army reservists

masks:
Gordon M
. Johnson
Johnson
Johnson
Johnson
Johnson
Sheriff Johnson
Sheriff Johnson
Johnson
Johnson
Johnson
Johnson
Johnson
Gordon Johnson
Johnson
Johnson
Johnson
Johnson
Johnson
Johnson
Johnson
Johnson
Johnson
Johnson
Johnson
Johnson
Johnson
Johnson
Johnson
Phil Murphy
Johnson
Gordon M
. Johnson
Johnson
Johnson


title: Kenneth Alwyn

texts:
<mask> (born <mask>) (28 July 1925 – 10 December 2020) was a British conductor, composer, and writer. Described by BBC Radio 3 as "one of the great British musical directors", <mask> was known for his many recordings, including with the London Symphony Orchestra on Decca's first stereophonic recording of Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture. He was also known for his long association with BBC Radio 2's orchestral live music programme Friday Night is Music Night, appearing for thirty years as a conductor and presenter, and for his contribution to British musical theatre as a prolific musical director in the 1950s and 1960s. He was a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Music and married the actress Mary Law in 1960. His website and the first volume of his memoirs A Baton in the Ballet and Other Places were both published in 2015. The second volume Is Anyone Watching? was published in 2017.A Book of Remembrance was opened on his website in December 2020. Early life, wartime service and education

<mask> was born in Croydon, England, and attended the John Ruskin Boys' Central School (now known as John Ruskin College). After wartime service with the Royal Air Force, <mask> joined the Royal Academy of Music (1947–1951), where he studied singing, viola and organ (with C. H. Trevor) and won the Manns Memorial Prize for conducting in 1952. He was the Sub-Professor of Organ and opera coach and founded the RAM Madrigal Choir. After a period as a Colonial Officer working with Radio Malaya in Singapore and a post as conductor with the Royal Wellington Choral Union in Wellington, New Zealand, in 1952, <mask> returned to England. The Royal Ballet, Covent Garden

In 1952 <mask> joined the Sadler's Wells Theatre Ballet (now known as the Birmingham Royal Ballet) as a conductor. In 1957, he moved to the Royal Ballet at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, where he shared the rostrum with Malcolm Sargent, Ernest Ansermet, Arthur Bliss, William Walton, Hans Werner Henze and Benjamin Britten, from whom he took over Britten's original production of The Prince of the Pagodas.It received its premiere on 1 January 1957. <mask> also served as musical director of the Western Theatre Ballet (now known as the Scottish Ballet) from 1967 to 1969. Conducting tours

<mask> toured extensively in Europe, North America, South Africa and the Far East. As principal conductor of the Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra in the 1960s, <mask> conducted the first performance in Japan of Gustav Holst's The Planets, and introduced other British works to Japanese audiences. BBC radio and television career

In 1958, the BBC invited <mask> to conduct the BBC Concert Orchestra, marking the beginning of a long association between <mask> and the BBC as a conductor and presenter of programmes including Friday Night is Music Night. <mask> worked with all of the BBC's orchestras, serving as Associate conductor of the BBC Concert Orchestra and, from 1969, as Principal conductor of the BBC Northern Ireland Orchestra (now known as the Ulster Orchestra). He also served on the BBC Music Advisory Committee.<mask> presented the BBC TV series The Orchestra, conducting the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. The series culminated in a performance of Benjamin Britten's Let's Make an Opera and was part of a pioneering educational movement, led by John Hosier, to teach music in schools through the medium of television. <mask> also presented a BBC Omnibus documentary on the music of Tchaikovsky, directed by Sir John Drummond. <mask>'s friendship with the comedian Dudley Moore led to a collaboration for Moore's final UK concert tour in March 1992. <mask> conducted the BBC Concert Orchestra for a series of performances with Moore at the piano. These included a series of concerts at the Royal Albert Hall, London, broadcast live on BBC Radio 4 and later released on CD under the title Live from an Aircraft Hangar (Martine Avenue Productions, Inc. 2001). Music from Moore's 1992 tour with <mask> also featured in a BBC Radio 2 programme celebrating 60 years of the BBC Concert Orchestra, broadcast on 2 March 2012.<mask>'s friendship and stage performances with another popular British comic, Bob Monkhouse, are chronicled in Monkhouse's autobiography Crying with Laughter: My Life Story. Musical theatre

To mark the year of his 80th birthday, <mask> was interviewed by Edward Seckerson for BBC Radio 3's programme Stage and Screen, broadcast on 21 November 2005. The programme notes record that "<mask>'s career has encompassed many of the highlights of post-war British musical theatre". Working frequently with Gordon Langford as orchestrator, <mask> served as musical director for the premieres of many Broadway and original British musicals, including the following productions:

 The Crooked Mile (Cambridge Theatre, London, 1959) starring Millicent Martin and Elisabeth Welch
 The Most Happy Fella (London Coliseum, 1959) starring Inia Te Wiata, Helena Scott and Art Lund
 H.M.S. Pinafore (Her Majesty's Theatre, 1962) directed by Sir Tyrone Guthrie
 The Pirates of Penzance (Her Majesty's Theatre, 1962) directed by Sir Tyrone Guthrie
 Half a Sixpence (Cambridge Theatre, London, 1963) starring Tommy Steele, Marti Webb and James Grout
 Camelot (Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London, 1964) starring Laurence Harvey and Elizabeth Larner
 Charlie Girl (Adelphi Theatre, London, 1965) starring Derek Nimmo, Gerry Marsden and Anna Neagle
 Jorrocks (New London Theatre, 1966) starring Joss Ackland and Cheryl Kennedy

<mask> made original cast recordings of all of the above shows and also made studio cast recordings (complete and/or highlights) of the following musicals:

 Oliver! (1960) featuring Ian Carmichael
 Bitter Sweet (1961) featuring Susan Hampshire and Adele Leigh
 Kismet (1961) featuring Elizabeth Harwood
 Guys and Dolls (1962) featuring Adele Leigh
 West Side Story (1962) featuring Adele Leigh
 Carmen Jones (1962) featuring Grace Bumbry and Elisabeth Welch
 Porgy and Bess (1964) featuring Lawrence Winters and Isabelle Lucas
 Glamorous Night / Careless Rapture (1969, reissued 2005) featuring John Stoddart and Patricia Johnson
 Gilbert & Sullivan Overtures (1963, reissued 2005) with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
 Gilbert & Sullivan: Valerie Masterson and Robert Tear sing Gilbert & Sullivan (1983) with the Bournemouth Sinfonietta
 The Most Happy Fella (2007) featuring Brian Blessed
 Carousel (2007) featuring Mandy Patinkin

Alwyn served as musical director for a production of the pantomime Dick Whittington at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre in 1955 starring Peter O'Toole. In recognition of his contribution to the world of British musical theatre, Alwyn and the Alwyn Concert Orchestra were invited to perform at the memorial service for Noël Coward, which was held in Westminster Abbey on 28 March 1984 in the presence of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother.Orchestral recordings

<mask>'s orchestral recording career dates back to 1958, when he recorded Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture for Decca Records with the London Symphony Orchestra and the Band of the Grenadier Guards, which has been reviewed and critically acclaimed many times over the years in Gramophone magazine. and was chosen as one of its records of the year (1958 Gramophone Critics' Choice). The recording famously featured slowed-down gunshots to mimic cannon fire. It has remained a mainstay of the classical catalogue and was re-issued by Decca in 2012. Other notable recordings include Lord Berners' Wedding Bouquet with the RTÉ Chamber Choir and Sinfonietta (1996 Gramophone Critics' Choice). Selected discography:

 Richard Addinsell: Warsaw Concerto / Hubert Bath: Cornish Rhapsody / Miklós Rózsa: Spellbound Concerto / Charles Williams: The Dream of Olwen / George Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue with Daniel Adni and the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra (EMI 1980, 1988, re-issued 2006)
 Paul Ben-Haim: Symphony No. 1 with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (CBS)
 Ben-Haim: Symphony No.2, Op. 36 / Concerto for Strings, Op. 40 with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (Nimbus Records for Jerusalem Records/Stradivari Classics, recorded 1962 and 1967, released 1984)
 Lord Berners: Wedding Bouquet / Luna Park / March with the RTÉ Chamber Choir and Sinfonietta (Marco Polo 1996)
 Jeremiah Clarke: Trumpet Voluntary with the Trumpeters of Kneller Hall, the Royal Military School and London Symphony Orchestra, recorded at the Opening Concert of the Aldeburgh Festival in 1953, at which Benjamin Britten and Imogen Holst also conducted works appearing on the same recording (Decca 1962, re-issued by Decca Eloquence)
 Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: Hiawatha's Wedding Feast with Anthony Rolfe Johnson, the Bournemouth Symphony Chorus and the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra (EMI 1984 and 2005)
 Coleridge-Taylor: The Song of Hiawatha / Symphonic Variations on an African Air with Bryn Terfel, Helen Field and the Welsh National Opera (Decca 1991, 1998 and 2002)
 George Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue / An American in Paris / Piano Concerto in F with Malcolm Binns and the Sinfonia of London Orchestra (EMI 1966)
 Edvard Grieg: Peer Gynt - Suite No. 1 / Rossini: Overtures with the London Philharmonic Orchestra and New Symphony Orchestra of London (re-issued by DECCA Eloquence 2012)
 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: 1812 Overture / Capriccio italien / Marche Slave / Swan Lake with the London Symphony Orchestra and London Philharmonic Orchestra (Decca 1958, Decca Ace of Diamonds 1965, Decca 2008, Decca Eloquence 2012)

Film music recordings

Alwyn's recording of The Ladykillers: Music from Those Glorious Ealing Films with the Royal Ballet Sinfonia won the 1998 Gramophone Award for Best Film Music Recording, and a selection of Richard Addinsell's film music entitled British Light Music with the BBC Concert Orchestra was chosen as a record of the year by Gramophone magazine (1995 Gramophone Critics' Choice). A collection of main themes and excerpts from famous film scores, including The Last of the Mohicans, The English Patient and Sense and Sensibility was also selected as a recording of the year by the magazine in 1998. Alwyn's wide interest in film music of all genres has led him to re-record many popular film scores, including The Bride of Frankenstein for which he received particular acclaim: "Shaped by Kenneth Alwyn with an admirable feel for the music's full-blooded style, and graced with a tight, bright recording which gives the orchestra an authentic film studio sound, this could almost be the original film soundtrack in modern digital dressing." Selected discography:

 Addinsell: British Light Music: Goodbye Mr Chips / A Tale of Two Cities / Fire Over England / Tom Brown's Schooldays / The Prince and the Showgirl / Festival with the BBC Concert Orchestra (Marco Polo 1995)
 Addinsell: Music of Richard Addinsell including Warsaw Concerto with the Royal Ballet Sinfonia (ASV 1997 and Decca 2010)
 Addinsell: Film Music with Peter Lawson and the Royal Ballet Sinfonia (ASV 1997)
 Auric and others: The Ladykillers: Music from Those Glorious Ealing Films with the Royal Ballet Sinfonia (Silva 1997)
 Bax and Arnold: Music for Films: Oliver Twist / Malta GC / The Sound Barrier: Rhapsody for Orchestra, Op.38 with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (CNR 1989, re-released ASV 1993)
 Newman: Man of Galilee: The Essential Alfred Newman Film Music Collection (Silva America 2001)
 Rozsa: Ben-Hur: The Essential Miklos Rozsa with the City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra (Silva Screen 1996, Silva America 2000)
 Morricone: Once Upon a Time: The Essential Ennio Morricone Film Music Collection (Silva America 2004)
 Schurmann and others: Horror!with the Westminster Philharmonic Orchestra (Silva Screen, 1996)
 Steiner: The Flame and the Arrow: Classic Film Music with the City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra (Silva Screen 1998)
 Steiner: Gone with the Wind: The Classic Max Steiner (Silva America 1994 and 2001)
 Steiner and others: Cinema Century (Silva Screen 1999)
 Vaughan Williams: Coastal Command / Bliss: Conquest of the Air / Schurmann: Attack & Celebration / Easdale: The Red Shoes with the Philharmonia Orchestra (Silva America 1993)
 Waxman: The Bride of Frankenstein / The Invisible Ray with the Westminster Philharmonic Orchestra (Silva America 1993)
 Young: The Quiet Man with the Dublin Screen Orchestra (Silva Screen Records 1995)
 Various: Best of British Light Music with the BBC Concert Orchestra and others (Naxos 2007)
 Various: Cinema's Classic Romances with the City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra (Silva Classics 1998)

Compositions
<mask> composed music and text for the BBC's Battle of Britain tour of North America to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the battle in 1990. His compositions for the tour include Fighter Command 1940, which is included on the album A Tribute to the Few (Polyphonic 1990) with the Massed Bands of the Royal Air Force. Said to reflect his own flying experience, it has been described as "a musical panorama of those days in march time". It has become a standard Royal Air Force ceremonial march and is played at the opening Royal Air Force Tours which commemorate anniversaries of the Battle of Britain. <mask> devised and conducted a gala concert in aid of Imperial Cancer Research Fund (now a constituent charity of Cancer Research UK) for the 1993 St George's Day Festival, for which he wrote much of the original music, featuring the BBC Concert Orchestra, the Royal Artillery Band, St George's Singers, St George's Festival Choir and the Wells Cathedral Junior School Choir. Starring Peter Vaughan as St George, it was broadcast from the Royal Albert Hall on BBC Radio 2. Alwyn devised and conducted a BBC concert to commemorate the 50th anniversary of D-Day on 6 June 1994, for which he wrote a musical description of D-Day called Echoes, introduced by Raymond Baxter.The BBC Concert Orchestra concert was broadcast live from Portsmouth and was subsequently released on CD as D-Day: The Fiftieth Anniversary Musical Tribute (Start 2010). <mask>'s other compositions include Concert March: The Young Grenadier which he dedicated to HM The Queen. It was played by the Massed Bands of the Brigade of Guards at the Trooping of the Colour in 1991 and is included on the album The Music of the Grenadier Guards (SRC 2006). The title of the work refers to a famous photograph of a young Princess Elizabeth wearing a Grenadier Cap at the time when she became Colonel of the Regiment in 1942. <mask> also composed a setting of Queen Elizabeth I's poem Youth and Cupid for a royal gala performance at the Chichester Festival Theatre to commemorate HM The Queen's Silver Jubilee in June 1977. He wrote the music and lyrics of a number of comic songs for singer Ian Wallace's album Wallace's New Zoo, released in 1965, including The Gorilla, (re-released as part of The Best of Ian Wallace, EMI 1994) and he has written stories and poems for children. <mask> also composed the song Liverpool for Gerry Marsden (later of Gerry and the Pacemakers), released in 1968.<mask> composed the theme tune for the LWT series Affairs of the Heart (1974-1975), a set of adaptations of the stories of Henry James, and he was also commissioned to write the music for the television adaptation of Sir John Mortimer's play A Choice of Kings, which commemorated the 900th anniversary of the Battle of Hastings. Promotion of the works of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

<mask>-Taylor's work began when his first dance band, 66 Squadron (Croydon) Air Training Corps, played Demande et Réponse in 1942. He later discovered that he had been christened at the same church where Coleridge-Taylor had been married and that they had attended the same school and had lived on the same street. <mask> included Demande et Réponse in the first BBC concert to be broadcast from Fairfield Halls, Croydon, in 1962, and other works by Coleridge-Taylor often featured in his programmes as presenter and conductor of Friday Night Is Music Night. In 1975, the centenary year of Coleridge-Taylor's birth, <mask> broadcast from Fairfield Halls the first complete performance of Coleridge-Taylor's The Song of Hiawatha, Op.30 since Sir Malcolm Sargent had conducted the work at the Royal Albert Hall in the 1930s. In 1991, <mask> recorded the entire Song trilogy with Bryn Terfel and the Welsh National Opera. In recognition of his long-standing work to bring the work of Coleridge-Taylor to greater prominence, <mask> was invited in January 2013 to unveil a blue plaque at the composer's home in Croydon as the culmination of a year of events to commemorate the centenary of Coleridge-Taylor's death.References

External links
 Website of <mask>
 Impulse Music <mask> | Distinguished Conductor, Musical Director of the Philomusica Orchestra, Principal Conductor of the Covent Garden Royal Ballet;, Writer, Presenter and Broadcaster with BBC Concert Orchestra for Friday Night is Music Night; Recording Artist with DECCA, ASV, Marco Polo, BBC

 Gramophone Magazine gramophone.co.uk
 Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Network Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Network

1925 births
2020 deaths
Musicians from London
English conductors (music)
British male conductors (music)
English classical composers
English male classical composers
20th-century British conductors (music)
20th-century English composers
21st-century British conductors (music)
21st-century English musicians
People from Croydon
Royal Air Force personnel of World War II
Alumni of the Royal Academy of Music
Academics of the Royal Academy of Music
20th-century British male musicians
21st-century British male musicians

masks:
Kenneth Alwyn
Kenneth Alwyn Wetherell
Alwyn
Alwyn
Alwyn
Alwyn
Alwyn
Alwyn
Alwyn
Alwyn
Alwyn
Alwyn
Alwyn
Alwyn
Alwyn
Alwyn
Alwyn
Alwyn
Alwyn
Alwyn
Alwyn
Alwyn
Alwyn
Alwyn
Alwyn
Alwyn
Alwyn
Alwyn
Alwyn
Alwyn
Alwynridge
Alwyn
Alwyn
Alwyn
Alwyn
Kenneth Alwyn
Kenneth Alwyn


title: Marcedes Lewis

texts:
<mask> (born May 19, 1984) is an American football tight end for the Green Bay Packers of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at UCLA, earning consensus All-American honors. He was selected by the Jacksonville Jaguars in the first round of the 2006 NFL Draft. Early years
<mask> was born in Los Alamitos, California. He graduated from Long Beach Polytechnic High School in Long Beach, California, where he played high school football for the Long Beach Poly Jackrabbits. In 2001, he competed in a nationally televised game against De La Salle of Concord, California. As a senior, <mask> was named as a Parade magazine high school All-American and was considered a top prospect by all major recruiting services.College career
<mask> attended UCLA, and played for the UCLA Bruins football team from 2002 to 2005. In 49 games with the Bruins, he started 32 times. He ranks ninth on the school's overall career-record receiving list and first among tight ends with 126 receptions, holding the UCLA tight end all-time records with 1,571 yards receiving and 21 touchdowns. As a senior in 2005, <mask> was a first-team All-Pacific-10 selection, a consensus first-team All-American, and won the John Mackey Award, given annually to the top tight end in college football. College statistics

Professional career

Jacksonville Jaguars
<mask> was selected by the Jacksonville Jaguars with the 28th overall pick in the first round of the 2006 NFL Draft. He played college football with running back Maurice Jones-Drew at UCLA who was also selected on the first day by the Jaguars. In July 2006, <mask> signed a five-year, $7.5 million contract that included $4.9 million guaranteed.<mask> made his NFL debut in Week 1 of the 2006 season against the Pittsburgh Steelers in a 9–0 victory. He scored his first professional touchdown on a one-yard reception from David Garrard in Week 12 against the Buffalo Bills. He finished his rookie season with three starts in 15 appearances. He totaled 13 receptions for 126 receiving yards and one receiving touchdown. His role expanded in the 2007 season with 37 receptions for 391 receiving yards and two receiving touchdowns. He started all 16 games in his second year. In 2008, <mask> started all 16 games once again and recorded 41 receptions for 489 receiving yards and two receiving touchdowns, which came in consecutive games in Week 5 and Week 6.In the 2009 season, he started all 16 games and recorded 32 receptions for 518 receiving yards and two receiving touchdowns. In the 2010 season, <mask> matched the Jaguars single-season touchdown receptions record with a total of 10 and was selected to his first Pro Bowl. He had previously been named as an alternate for the 2009 Pro Bowl. He started all 16 games and had three games with multiple receiving touchdowns. Due in part to the 2011 NFL lockout, the Jaguars placed the franchise tag on <mask> on February 24, 2011. On August 5, 2011 after a short training camp hold out, <mask> signed a five-year contract reportedly worth about $35 million ($17 million guaranteed). In the 2011 season, he started in and appeared in 15 games and totaled 39 receptions for 460 receiving yards.For the first time in his professional career, he did not have a touchdown. In the final game of the 2012 regular season against the Tennessee Titans, <mask> had seven receptions for 103 receiving yards for his first game going over the 100-yard mark. He totaled 52 receptions for 540 receiving yards and four receiving touchdowns on the season. In the 2013 season, he totaled 25 receptions for 359 receiving yards and four receiving touchdowns in 11 games. The four receiving touchdowns all came in four consecutive games from Week 13 to Week 16. In the 2014 season, he totaled 18 receptions for 206 receiving yards and two receiving touchdowns. <mask> continued his constant production in the 2015 season with 16 receptions for 226 receiving yards in 16 games, all starts.On March 9, 2016, <mask> re-signed a three-year, $12 million contract to remain with the Jaguars. He was placed on injured reserve on November 21, 2016 after suffering a calf injury in Week 11 against the Detroit Lions. He totaled 20 receptions for 169 receiving yards and one receiving touchdown in ten starting appearances. In Week 3 of the 2017 season, he recorded four receptions for 62 receiving yards and a career-high three receiving touchdowns in a 44–7 victory over the Baltimore Ravens. He finished with 24 receptions for 318 receiving yards and five receiving touchdowns in 16 starts. In the AFC Championship loss to the New England Patriots, <mask> recorded his first postseason touchdown on a four-yard reception from Blake Bortles. On March 20, 2018, <mask> was released by the Jaguars after 12 seasons with the team.Green Bay Packers
On May 24, 2018, the Green Bay Packers signed <mask> to a one-year, $2.1 million contract that included a $500,000 signing bonus. <mask> caught his first pass as a Packer on November 4, 2018 during a Week 9 loss to the New England Patriots. He finished the 2018 season with three catches for 39 yards. On March 18, 2019, <mask> re-signed with the Packers on a one-year, $2.1 million dollar contract. <mask> caught his first touchdown as a Packer, a one-yard reception from Aaron Rodgers, on December 1, 2019 during a Week 13 victory over the New York Giants. He finished the 2019 season with 15 receptions for 156 receiving yards and one receiving touchdown. The Packers advanced to the playoffs as the NFC's 2 seed, losing in the NFC Championship to the San Francisco 49ers.On March 24, 2020, <mask> re-signed with the Packers on a one-year contract. <mask> started 15 games, catching 10 passes for 107 yards and 3 touchdowns. The Packers advanced to the playoffs as the top seed in the NFC, but again lost in the NFC Championship Game to the eventual Super Bowl champion Tampa Bay Buccaneers. On March 30, 2021, Packers re-signed <mask> to a two-year, $8 million contract. In a Week 15, 31–30 victory against the Baltimore Ravens, <mask> surpassed 5,000 career receiving yards. The Packers again clinched home-field advantage as the NFC's top seed for the 2021 playoffs. Personal life
<mask> has been active in his hometown of Long Beach, California, holding football camps that combine sports development with academics..

NFL career statistics

Regular season

Postseason

Awards
 2005 John Mackey Award (Best TE)
 2005 All-American Team
 2005 All-Pac-10 Team
 2004 John Mackey Award Finalist (Best TE)
 2004 All-American Team
 2004 All-Pac-10 Team
 Prep Star Dream Team (Best Prep TE)
 Super Prep All-American
 Super Prep Elite (rated #4)
 Parade All-American
 Student Sports Hot 100 List (#30)
 2011 Pro Bowl

References

External links

Green Bay Packers bio
Jacksonville Jaguars bio
UCLA Bruins bio

1984 births
Living people
All-American college football players
American Conference Pro Bowl players
American football tight ends
Green Bay Packers players
Jacksonville Jaguars players
People from Los Alamitos, California
Players of American football from California
Sportspeople from Orange County, California
UCLA Bruins football players

masks:
Marcedes Alexis Lewis
Lewis
Lewis
Lewis
Lewis
Lewis
Lewis
Lewis
Lewis
Lewis
Lewis
Lewis
Lewis
Lewis
Lewis
Lewis
Lewis
Lewis
Lewis
Lewis
Lewis
Lewis
Lewis
Lewis
Lewis
Lewis


title: Rajmund Kupareo

texts:
<mask> (Spanish: <mask>)  (16 November 1914 – 1996) was a Croatian Roman Catholic priest, poet, theological writer, composer, translator and editor. He wrote in Croatian, Czech, Latin and Spanish. He spent most productive years of his life working in Chile as a professor of aesthetics and axiology in Santiago de Chile; he served there as the dean of the Faculty of Philosophy (twice) and the vice-rector of the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. In his philosophical work, <mask> deals with the deep meaning and purpose of the art. Life
<mask> was born on 16 November 1914 in Vrboska, the island of Hvar (present-day Republic of Croatia), a descendant of an old noble family. He entered the Order of the Preachers in Dubrovnik in 1930 and was ordained priest in Split in 1937. He studied philosophy, theology and languages in Dubrovnik, Zagreb (Croatia), Olomouc (Moravia), Santiago de Chile (Chile) and Washington, D.C. (USA).During World War II, <mask> was the editor-in-chief of Gospina krunica (Our Lady's Rosary), a Catholic monthly magazine in Zagreb. He also managed the Dominican publishing house Istina (Truth), which published a translation of The Story of a Soul by Saint Thérèse of Lisieux, and Razmišljanja o krunici (Meditations on the Rosary), translated by Aloysius Stepinac, the Archbishop of Zagreb. The arrival of communist troops in the spring of 1945 hindered his project to publish all the sermons and speeches delivered by Stepinac from 1934–44, in which the Archbishop had strongly condemned racism and intolerance, and emphasized the right of the Croatian people to have their own state. After entering Zagreb, the communists destroyed the entire edition of 10.000 books in the printing-house. Only one copy was saved and Stepinac later used it at his trial to show there was no freedom of press in Tito's Yugoslavia. He left Croatia on 2 January 1947, and did not return until 10 June 1971. He took refuge first in the Czech Republic, afterwards in the Netherlands, France and Spain.Finally, in 1950, he found his place in Chile. He spent his most productive years as a professor of aesthetics and axiology in Santiago de Chile and served as the dean of the Faculty of Philosophy (twice) and the vice-rector of the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. He was the founder the Institute of Aesthetics and the School of Journalism in Santiago de Chile, as well as initiator and editor of several publications. As the official representative of the university, he traveled through North, Central and South America, Europe and the Middle East. He suffered a stroke on 14 May 1970, which forced him to retire. He returned to Croatia to die but recovered to a certain degree and led a secluded and simple life in the Dominican priory in Zagreb. Despite his frail condition, he continued his literary and scientific work.In 1985 he became a member of Academia Chilena de la Lengua of the Instituto de Chile, the Chilean Academy of Arts and Letters. After the democratic changes in Croatia he finally became a member of the Croatian Writers Association. In 1985, he was promoted a foreign member of Academia Chilena de la Lengua. Work

<mask> published 25 different volumes of his writings: nine treatises on aesthetics (in Latin, Spanish and Croatian) and 14 books of poetry, novels, stories and plays (in Croatian, Czech and Spanish). His poetry is compiled in the anthology Svjetloznak (Lightsign, 1994). After his death two more poems were found in manuscript form and published in the daily newspaper Vjesnik on 6 June 1998. He authored significant number of compositions of religious and secular character: manuscripts of polyphonic motets and even a few operettas, mainly to his own lyrics, are kept in Dominican priories’ archives in Croatia, Chile and Italy.Among others, he put to music O Spem Miram (O wonderful hope), the famous prayer to St Dominic, while he was in Las Caldas de Besayu priory (Spain) in 1949. His stories on World War II and the lives of Dominicans, priests, professors and emigrants in Latin and North America: Balada iz Magallanesa (The Ballad from Magallanes) are published in 1978; followed by stories on the same subject Čežnja za zavičajem (Longing for Home, 1989) and Patka priča (Tales by a Duck, 1994). In 1939. is published his novel: U morskoj kući (In the Sea House, 1939), followed with novels Jedinac (The Only Son, 1942), Baraban (Barabban, 1943) and Sunovrati (The Narcissi, 1960). He wrote two children's plays: Magnificat and Sliepo srdce (The Blind Heart, 1944) and three plays: Muka Kristova (Christ's Passion, Madrid, 1948), Uskrsnuće (The Resurrection, 1983) and Porođenje (The Nativity, 1984). These last three were published together under the title Prebivao je među nama (He Resided Among Us, 1985). Starting with his Chilean period, he wrote several book on aesthetics: Ars et moralis (1951), El Valor del Arte – Axiología estética (1964), Creationes Humanas, I, La Poesia (1965), Creationes Humanas, II, El Drama (1966), Umjetnik i zagonetka života (The Artist and the Mystery of Life, 1982), Govor umjetnosti (Language of the Art, 1987), Čovjek i umjetnost (Man and the Art, 1993) and Um i umjetnost (Intellect and Art, 2007). See also

 Croatian literature
 Dominicans

Notes

External links

 Inauguración Busto Padre Raimundo Kupareo, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Instituto de Estetica, November 2017.Petar Marija Radelj, "Witness to the First Beauty" (biography and poems), 27 November 2014. Biblioteca del Congreso Nacional de Chile: <mask>, Rajmund, catalogo.bcn.cl; retrieved 29 November 2014. Radoslav Ivelić Kusanović "El hombre en la estética del dr. Raimundo <mask>", Radoslav Ivelić Kusanović, 3 February 2013. "KUPAREO, RAJMUND, NOVELISTA, BÁSNÍK, DRAMATIK, KOMPONISTA, ESTÉT", Czech Dominican Province, 29 November 2014. "Raimundo Kupareo i Čile", Željka Lovrenčić, "Kolo" Matice hrvatske, 1-2015

1914 births
1996 deaths
Date of death missing
Croatian anti-communists
Croatian male poets
Croatian expatriates in Chile
Members of the Dominican Order
20th-century Croatian poets
People from Hvar

masks:
Rajmund Kupareo
Raimundo Kupareo
Kupareo
Rajmund Kupareo
Kupareo
Kupareo
Kupareo
Kupareo


title: Bhulabhai Desai

texts:
<mask> (13 October 1877 – 6 May 1946) was an Indian independence activist and acclaimed lawyer. He is well-remembered for his defence of the three Indian National Army soldiers accused of treason during World War II, and for attempting to negotiate a secret power-sharing agreement with Liaquat Ali Khan of the Muslim League. Early life
<mask> was born in Valsad, Gujarat. Initially schooled by his maternal uncle, <mask> further studied at the Avabai School in Valsad and the Bharda High School in Bombay, from where he matriculated in 1895, standing first in his school. He married Ichchhaben while still in school. They had one son, Dhirubhai, but Ichchhaben died of cancer in 1923. He then joined the Elphinstone College in Bombay from where he graduated in high standing in English literature and history.He won the Wordsworth Prize and a scholarship for standing first in History and Political Economy. He did his MA in English from the University of Bombay. <mask> was appointed Professor of English and History in the Gujarat College, Ahmedabad. While teaching he also studied law. <mask> enrolled as an advocate at the Bombay High Court in 1905, and became one of the city's and later the nation's leading lawyers. Political career
<mask> began his political career with joining Annie Besant's All India Home Rule League. He had joined the Indian Liberal Party, supportive of British influences, but came out in opposition of the all-European Simon Commission formed in 1928 by the British to formulate constitutional reforms in India.His connection with the Indian National Congress began when he represented the farmers of Gujarat in the inquiry by the British Government following the Bardoli Satyagraha in 1928. The satyagraha was a campaign by the farmers of Gujarat protesting oppressive taxation policies in a time of famine, under the leadership of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel. <mask> formidably represented the farmers' case, and was important to the eventual success of the struggle. <mask> formally joined the Congress in 1930. Convinced about the effectiveness of boycott of foreign goods, he formed the Swadeshi Sabha and persuaded 80 textile mills to join in, with the aim of building a boycott by Indian companies of foreign goods. The Sabha was declared illegal and he was arrested in 1932 for his activities. While in jail, <mask> <mask> was constantly ill. On his release on health grounds, he went to Europe for treatment.When the Congress Working Committee was reorganised, at Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel's insistence <mask> was included in the committee. In November 1934, <mask> was elected to the Central Legislative Assembly from Gujarat. The Government of India Act 1935, which allowed provincial autonomy, raised the question whether the Congress should participate in the legislatures. <mask> among others supported Congress participation, pointing out the greater autonomy and political rights granted to Indians. When the Congress entered the Central Assembly, he was elected the leader of all elected Congressman, thus becoming the majority leader. He built much respect and standing by forcefully leading the first elected representation of the Congress. At the onset of World War II, the Congress opposed the arbitrary inclusion of India and Indian soldiers in the war effort.<mask> <mask> considered it important to use the Central Assembly to clarify the Congress attitude to the world. <mask> addressed the House on 19 November 1940, making a strong plea which read "...unless it is India's war, it is impossible that you will get India's support." Participating in the satyagraha initiated by Mohandas Gandhi, he was arrested on 10 December, under the Defense of India Act and sent to Yerwada Central Jail. He was released from prison in September 1941 on grounds of poor health, which also affected his participation in the Quit India movement. <mask>-Liaquat pact
While Mohandas Gandhi and the entire Congress Working Committee had been arrested during the Quit India movement, from 1942 to 1945, <mask> was one of few Congress leaders free. While pressing demands for the immediate release of political prisoners, <mask> began secretive talks with Liaquat Ali Khan, the second-most important leader of the Muslim League. However this assertion has been seriously challenged by other eminent people like Sir Chiman Lal Setalwad who have stated that Gandhi had full knowledge of the ongoing negotiations.It was their intention to negotiate an agreement for a future coalition government, which would enable a united choice for Hindus and Muslims for the independent Government of India. In this deal, Liaquat gave up the demand for a separate Muslim state in turn for parity of Muslims-to-Hindus in the council of ministers. Conceding the League as the representative of Muslims and giving a minority community equal place with the majority Hindus, <mask> attempted to construct an ideal Indian alliance that would hasten India's path for freedom while ending the Quit India struggle. While <mask> was working without the knowledge of Gandhi, Patel, Jawaharlal Nehru or any other Congress leader, Khan had kept the deal a secret from his superior, Muhammad Ali Jinnah. When a press report leaked the prospective deal in 1945, the respective parties were alarmed. While <mask> presented full information to Gandhi, Jinnah and the League outrightly rejected any agreements, and Liaquat Ali Khan denied that such a pact was being negotiated. <mask>'s assertion that a deal had been reached was ridiculed by the League, while Congress leaders were angry at him for conducting such negotiations without informing them.<mask> <mask> would lead a major effort in March 1945 to get the House to defeat the unpopular war budget, but he had lost political standing in his own party owing to the fallout of the Desai-Liaquat pact. He was not given a ticket to contest elections for the Constituent Assembly of India on grounds of his ill-health, but also due to feelings in the Congress that <mask> had been advancing his own power and popularity while the Congress leadership was imprisoned. This should be kept in mind that at that time many a proceedings of the Indian National Congress were shrouded in secrecy and people like Sir Chiman Lal Setalwad have time and again asserted that Gandhi had full knowledge of the Desai-Liaquat pact and was in fact the silent force behind the negotiations. It is also a matter worth note that when <mask> was on his death bed, Gandhi went to meet him and did not speak a single word citing his "Maunvrata" (a fast wherein people do not speak for a designated period of time). INA soldiers trial

When three captured Indian National Army (INA) officers, Shahnawaz Khan, Prem Kumar Sahgal and Gurbaksh Singh Dhillon were put on trial for treason, the Congress formed a Defence committee composed of 17 advocates including <mask> <mask>. The court-martial hearing began in October 1945 at the Red Fort. <mask> was the leading counsel for the defence.Undeterred by poor health, <mask> made an emphatic and passionate argument in defence of the charged soldiers. He worked for three months at a stretch. He cited international law in his arguments, arguing that the accused were entitled to take up arms to gain independence for their country under the order of the Provisional Government which Subhas Bose had established and which had the recognition of a few sovereign governments, and that the Indian Penal Code did not apply to their case. The judge nevertheless pronounced the three officers guilty and sentenced them to transportation for life. The accused were however released and during the course of the trials reignited the Indian freedom struggle leading to complete independence in 1947. Death
<mask> <mask> died on 6 May 1946. His immense wealth led to the creation of the Bhulabhai Memorial Institute in Bombay.Legacy
M.C. Setalwad authored his biography, <mask> <mask>. Bhulabhai Desai Road in Mumbai is named after him. References
Rajmohan Gandhi, Patel: A Life (1992)

Indian independence activists from Gujarat
Indian National Army trials
1877 births
1946 deaths
Gujarati people
University of Mumbai alumni
Members of Central Legislative Assembly of India
Elphinstone College alumni
Prisoners and detainees of British India
19th-century Indian lawyers
Politicians from Mumbai
Indian National Congress politicians from Gujarat
People from Valsad district
20th-century Indian lawyers
20th-century Indian politicians

masks:
Bhulabhai Desai
Bhulabhai Desai
Bhulabhai
Bhulabhai
Desai
Bhulabhai
Bhulabhai
Desai
Bhulabhai
Desai
Desai
Desai
Bhulabhai
Bhulabhai
Desai
Bhulabhai
Desai
Desai
Desai
Desai
Desai
Desai
Desai
Bhulabhai
Desai
Desai
Desai
Bhulabhai
Desai
Bhulabhai
Bhulabhai
Bhulabhai
Desai
Bhulabhai
Desai