K. Wayn Register
Karl Wayn Register, 32, of Portsmouth, Virginia, died on Monday, March
29, 1993, at Portsmouth General Hospital
due to AIDS related complications, ac- .
:ording to his close friend, Anna Rein:iardt, of Silver Spring Maryland.
Register lived in D.C. from 1990 to
992, but spent most his life in Portsmouth. Diagnosed with AIDS in 1992, he
moved back to Portsmouth to be with his
family and friends.
Register also was known as Stephanie
Wayne. According to Reinhardt, he
thoroughly enjoyed his time spent as a
female impersonator. He worked at
. Shooters for a couple of years, and at
. other clubs in D.C. and Virginia, in, eluding Ziegfeld's, Lost and Found, and
Rascals.
Register's achievements include being
crowned Ms. Gay Virginia Beach, and
Ms. Gay Virginia.
"She was loved and will be greatly
missed by all her friends," Reinhardt said.
In addition to Reinhardt, Register is
survived by his father, Joseph T. Register, and saepmother, Dot P. Register; a
brother, Joseph T. Jr.; a sister Judy King;
Alan James
Rambow, 38, of
Washington, died
Thursday, August
12, 1993, at the
Hospice of Washington of complications associated
with AIDS, according to his
friend, John Bonnage of D.C.
Rambow was born at William Beaumont Army Hospital in El Paso, Texas o~
May 26, 1955. He grew up in Y~llow
Springs, Ohio, and went to Chaminade
Ohio. Rambow
High School in Day
in
attended Nadia 'Ii
Dento_ wbed bo
and a stepsister, Carole Prince, all of
Portsmouth.
A memorial service was held on April
1 at Greenlawn Memorial Gardens in
Portsmouth.
Contributions can be made to the
Tidewater AIDS Crisis Taskforce, an
AIDS suppon organization located at 740
Duke SL, Suite 520, Norfolk, VA 23510.
degree
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rugby while attending college. .
After college, Rambow moved to California where he began working as a
secwity guard at the Livennore Nuclear
Facility. He later joined the Anny in the
early 1970s and completed basic ttaining
at Fort Dix, NJ., and was assigned to
.cartographic duty at Fort Belvoir in
·Fairfax, Va.
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Rambow was honorably discharged
neetor Rodriguez, 5!
ftom the service and began worlcing as a
Model JOT arts schools
911 dispatcher for the Fairfax County
Police. He also worked for courier serHector Rodriguez, a model for
vices in the metropolitan area. He retired
Boston arts schools, a Vietnam vetthis past June as a staff member of the
eran and former New York developClerk of Court's Office of the D.C.
ment council worker, died Sunday in
Circuit Court.
the Hospice on Mission Hill of canRambow was a member of the Spartan
cer. He was 52.
Motorcycle Club for ten years. He served
Mr. Rodriguez was born in
as the club's past Chairman of Maradlon
Brooklyn, N .Y., and educated in
which is the club's swnmer riding eveoL
New York public schools.
Rambow's interests included reading sciHe joined the Air Force in 1959
• P,nce fiction novels, studying neon art,
and served 20 years before retiring
and woocing in stained glass.
for New
in 1979. He then worked
In addition to Bonnage, Rambow is
' · York's economic development counsurvived by his mother, Anne PooJe
cil, coordinating governmental agen· Rambow Wolf; stepfather, James Wolf;
cies and commercial firms in the resister, Susan McCarthy; two brothers,
s to ration of Times Square. He
Terry and Tom Wolf; all of Dayton,
moved to Boston in 1982 and became
an artists' model.
Ohio; sister, Jan Dalzell, of Pittsburgh.
Mr. Rodriguez leaves his wife, Sherry Black, of Cologne, N.J., and Pa.; maternal grandparents, Mr. and MIS.
Edith (Scott); his mother, Gloria Susan Ballard of Sacramento, Calif.
Joseph Poole of SL Petersburg, Fla.; and
. (Pizzaro) Rodriguez of Brooklyn;
A funeral service will be held at paternal grandmother, Avis Rambow, of
' four sisters, Erma Marquez, Nilda 10:30 a.m. tomorrow in the J.S. WaLivermore, Calif. He was predeceased by
Trilhe and Ninfa Vassallo, all of terman and Sons Funeral Home in
his father, Paul Rambow.
Brooklyn, and Grace Portacio of Ew- Kenmore Square. Burial will be in
Rambow's remains were cremated and
ing, N.J.; two brothers, Carlos of the Veterans Administration Nationa memorial service will be held Saturday,
Long Island, N.Y., and Alex of al Cemetery of Massachusetts in
Aug. 21, at 2:30 p.m., at SL Ann's
Brookline: and two stepdaughters, Bourne.
Church, Wisconsin and Nebraska ave.,
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nues, NW. A reception will follow at Im
The
TJ. former residence.
Martell Foundation for LlMt8mla
Contributions in Rambow's name may
CClnc:er and AIDS Research
mourns the sudden PCJSSlnll of Dr.
Frank J. Rauscher, Jr. W110 served be made to Hospice of Washington, 3720 ·
with clatlnctlOn as Cllalrmon of
our Scientific Advtsorv Boord. We Upton SL NW, Washington, DC 20016.
&xtend our CleeP&st .IYffllllllllY tp
§~5§1,J; -Principal dancer
~ ffi{AUL
~wlf&andfamlly. ,a.••...Tony Martel~ Pl'esldent
Y:Z Flovel s. Gllnert, Chairman
w1 u ance eatre of Harlem and San
'\ Francisco BalleL February 15, age
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Melvin L. Rosen, 42, ~anizer
OfPrograms to Fight AIDS Crisis
Michael Ritter
Nov.14, 1948-Feb.25,
fund raislna event whJch beneflta the
National Rehabllltatlon Ho pltal in
Northwe t D.C.
Rice wu bom and railed In PIUlburp.
Pa. He attended Bdinboro Univenity or .
Penn1ylvania ln Bdlnboro, and moved to
the D.C. area In 1974, Rice worked at
Cafe de Parl1 in Oeorptown u a waiter
until 1t went out of bu1lne11 in the early
t 9801. Then he went to Arena Stqe,
Rice' lnterea Included playbta the
plaHo, 1ln1hta with hla frlendl, boathta
cm Lake Jackllon, 1ardenin1, and travel
Ina, conUn1 to Ph an. Rice allo n
Joyed the company of hl_ doa, Luoy.
tn addlUon to Phelan. k i1 urvived
by hla paren , Joae h and Betty Ric ;
on 11 ter, Kathleen haver, all of Plt •
burgh; two brothen, Jnhn, of Pittsburgh:
and Joaeph Jr. of York, Pa. _
A memorial aervlce wu held ht Ma·
nu . Rice's remain were Interred In
Phtaburah.
ln Ueu of nowen, contribution In
Rke'a name may be made to the Hoeplc
of Northern Vlralnla, 6400 Arllngton
Blvd.. uhe 1000, Palts Church, VA
IAonard IIDei; organist for the
New York Philharmonic, died m
complications from AIDS
Jan. 29 in New York City. He
was 66.
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Pox Valley AIDS project to
dlllldren after pediatrician
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from disease. Children are not In
daJl8er, project official said. / r,t/J
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Assn 43 Altl'lea Rd ., Ranclolpl'l MA 02388
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tile Aids Action Committee, 131 Clarendon
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Ricky Ray, hemophiliac
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Jan. 26, 1993 in
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from AIDS, FebruarV :is. 1993. Belaved brOlher of sv Rlbakove of
c_,... NY, and Sall Ann Krlellsman of CheVV Chase, MO, IOvtng
uncle of Joshua Rlbakove of
Chenango Forl<$. NY, cherlsMd
brOther·in-law of Alan M. Krlellsman and Nancy Rlbakove, and
ORLANDO, Fla. - Ricky Randy, 13, also carry the
cJeor friend of Robert Watson. DeRay, the eldest of three he· virus that causes AIDS.
voted son of the late Dr. Aaron
and Charlotte Rlbakove. Founder
mophiliac brothers barred Their sister, 11-year-old JONNREIIIE
and Chairman of Richard Kove
Associates lnc(lfl)Oraled. He was
from school because they Candy, isn't infected..
Jan. 18, 1992, age 56
an lnSl>iratlon and comfort to
The younger brothers are
carried the AIDS virus, died
many dear friends. Services sunand
2
yesterday after months of "the picture of health" and Actor, singer,
F:f>~~.?!"~,~
The American
cabaret performer
Amsterdam Avenue. Interment at
AIDS Research
battling the disease. He was are not yet showing any
Mount Lebanon Cemeterv, Glenmourns the passing of our great
signs of having developed who played Mr.
15.
dale, Queens. 111 lleu of flowers,
friend and sullll)C)l'ler, Steven J.
memorial donations mav be made
Ross. His ear1V commitment to
His family was by his bed· full-blown AIDS, Barbosa Gold tone in t he
to AIDS Resource Center, 27S 7th
01K cause has hetoed CXNQllCe the
Br~ay revival
side, said Dr. Jerry Barbosa. said yesterday.
Ave, New Yori<. New Yori( 10001
search for effectlVe AIDS related
or other AIDS organizations.
lheral)les and vaccines. and mode
The hemophiliac brothers of C',ypsy.
Ricky had been in and out
\
them more bnladlV avalkmle to
· bOm in N'f!=
those In need. This same commitof All Childrens Hospital in were believed to have been
AIDS al hos
ment has lllll)lred counttess othSt. Petersburg for months, infected by blood transfu·
.,-s, esoeciallV those In the c<>rPOr· horne in Seattle on Januarv l9,
ate communltV, to emulate hts \993. He was a .,,ovwr•ghl ~
being treated for pneumonia, sions, and the family agreed
outstanding leodenhk>, generosttv tlst In the cltv thrO~ the r ~ at
infections and eye problems. to a $1 million settlement in
and compassion. OUr thoughts and p1av "Red Heaven was
sympathies ore with Courtnev and BACA and he presented other ~
He finished his last stay 1991 with pharmaceutical
51a11attons and performances
his tamllV, now and atwavs.
Elizabeth Tavlor, The Kttchen. Douglm worlas
the day before Thanksgiv- companies that manufacture
~ur
mernber of the
di
Material. His play in
• was born In foun ~
ing, saying he wanted to be blood products.
27, 1947, and ledlVe rOUP "Visltallon•·. After
o
Ricky made headlines by
for the holidays.
home
died on Saturday, July 31, 1993 orcxiress waiattle In 1990, he hod
from complications of AcQulred mov\"gi!fiJion. AIDS sur,oval
''Obviously, it was not un- himself in June 1991 when he
Immune Dltfk:lencv Syndrome. on nJ at the Ar. n Form galle.v
founding member of the
expected, but it was sudden announced his engagement
Bob was an earlv volunteer tor Roorn
(PeQPle wl111 Im·
~ The Peoce Corps under the Ken· He was a
neighbor. 111· BEN RUBIN
and quick," said Judith Cav· to a 16-year-old
j nedV Administration assigned to P.LS.D. ~~~f:~ Disorders). He
erous groups and or
cevlon and Koreo where he mune
anaugh, the family's attor· ness forced them to put off llarcb 19, 1992, age 29
:0':i~~vong with
ney. "And he died at home, the wedding, and they later Recent casting chief taught emollonallv and Phvslcallv ~ol<eIth hos memorv areAIDS. Liv·
his 10\lln~
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challenged children. During this
ene and Torr., bi other
time he developed o llfe·long pas· Ing w
at Wilshire Court
which is what he really broke up.
slon for exotic plants and flowers. parents F!~oted sister Juloe1, and
During his last hospital P roductions; his last After recelviog his M.A. Degree In ouncan.10 se trtends A menior,OI
wanted."
held in Seattle.
Education from Penn State. he rnanvk: c
The Rays' story became stay, Ricky received an inau- project was casting
went on to design gymnastic ond serv e "!05
Miehael Paul, 35 Of
leamlog programs for emollonan,
national news in 1986 when gural invitation from Presi· tfie
A Cable
Lane, West Simsburv, CT
the boys were barred from dent-elect Clinton and hoped feature Dirty Work . challenged teens In New Yori( CII', StrattonEleanor Richardson Hanand ol Delaware Academv In Up- son of
stote, N.Y. In 1982, he and his kard and the 1a1e James L. Richschool in Arcadia because to attend. He improved to the
friend, Neil Lane moved from ardson and step.son of Thomas J
they were infected with HIV. point that he was walking
New York lo Los Angeles, Where Hankard. died MondaV, AUIIUSI 26.
thev co-founded on estate lewele- 1991 at his home from AIDS relatThe family sued and won a the week after Thanksgiv·
rv store In the AnllQuarlus Build- ed c~mpllcatlons. He was born De·
Ing. As the business grew, Bob re- C9ff\ber 18. 1955 In Dover, NH and
federal court order in 1987 ing, "surprising everyone,"
turned to his original love of tropl· hCIII liVed in west simsbllrv for
sending the children back to but his health then rapidly
• cal plants and flowers. and tended -st of his lofe. He was o gradUate
them until he died. He Is survived Of SimsbUrv Hloh SChOOI, class of
deteriorated, Barbosa said.
class.
bV his long-time com~nlon, NeN 1'13 and of Georgetown UntveniThe boy had been comaThe ruling sparked comLaoe of Los Anoeles; hos mother, 1y SChool of Foreign service, claSS
Mr. Richardson was a f~
Marv; sisters Judy WIiiiams, Sue ol of
munity protests. At the end tose for the last several
Schaffer, Marv Joon and Janie -,clal ana1vst at Kidder-Peal>ORehnert and t>rolher, Johnny; and W New Yori< Cltv, N.Y. and had
of the first week of school the days, and death was caused
numerous nephews and nieces 111WVious1V been associated with
Rays' home was destroyed by multiple organ failure.
and Amerk:an E,cpn!SS In
and loving friends. He will sore
'DAVID SCOTT RICHARDSOII · be missed and never forgotten bv New Yori< C,tv. BeskleS hls mother
Services were being
arsonist. The family
by
the manv people Whose lives he and steo-father he 1s survlVed bV
planned for later this week Sept 29, 1992, age 30
eventually left
touched. Viewing and services five brothers and three sisterS-lnheld Wednesdav, August ., 5-8PN\ law w,mam and Joanne RIChor·
-AP Story editor and
Robert Ray, U, and in Sarasota.
at SI. John the BCll>IISI Church, 91:l nison of S1msbUrv, CT; Daniel F.
Mahantongo Street, Pottsville, Richardson of Konofield. ME.;
-:,:.GQrda!J, 67. painter and
writer on t he ABC
PA., 717-622-5470. Interment on Jomes L . Richardson. Jr of Slmmuralist and active in ciVlc affairs.
sitcom Family
Thursdav, August S at 11 A.M., at aurv CT· Robert and Margaret
of Key west and Cherrv Grove,
Rlchardso'n of west somsbU_rv, CT;
SI. John the BOl)tlst Cemeterv.
died March 1, 1993. Educated
Matters.
laroelv In Europe, he graduated
and Kevin and Frances Richardfrom the Holderness School and
son of Avon, CT; a stster ancl
s1udled at the Pinecotek In MU·
11rother·ln·law, Morilvn and Wit·
a
nich, Germanv. He Is survived bV
11am Casev of Dorchester, MA. _
OIi MW
Yortc
Victor Berringer, his deVoted
Sl)Kial friend Andrew Mockenite.
altar a herole battle wffh AIDS. Hit
friend of thlrtv veors. his brother,
of Londan, England; noeces and
Douglas Rollins. of Yori< HarbOr,
nephews. Meaghan -and Jomfl of
I ME and six nieces and nepheWs.
SlmsbUrv, CT; Emllv, Tlmothv and
Ohio, his grand parents, throte
Memorial donations mav be sent
John ot West SomsbUrv, CT, and
brolhen. two sisters and Innumerto the Cherrv Grove Memorial
many other Iovino relatives and
able friends whose ltws ht
Fund and God's Love We Deliver
fr,endS Funeral will be wecirtouched. In Heu of 1 1 - , ~
In New Yo{1< and AIDS Help Inc In
daV, 10:15 A.M. at the Vincent
Hons In his memorv to GMHC
Kev West, FL A memorial service
Funeral Home, 880 HoPmeadoW
would be CPOr9daled. A memortaj
will be held this summer.
st SimsbUrv, CT. followed bV a
\
oathtrlno to be announced. •
~ of Christian Burlal at 11AM
on SI Catherine of SlenO ChUrdl.
wesi Slmsburv. Burial wilt be 111
SlmsbUrV.
Cemeterv,
center
Friends mav call at the Vincent
Funeral Home in SimSl>Ul'V, todaY,
2-• and 7·9PM. Memorial ctonations mav be made to VNAJN!c,•
Lean Vatlev HoSDlce Proorom. 1
ussell Jr., a cellist, Philip Glass and Christian WoHf.
Siftl.
Charles Arthur R
Mr. Russell was born in Oskaloosa, Old Mill Lane, SlmsbUl'V, CT.A9'0sbUrv Volunteer
vocalist and composer who was known Iowa. He attended the ~anhat~an clatlon, P.O. Box AmbulanU
301, s ~
ANTHONY RIOLO. executive director of for bis fusion of classical and popul!lr School of Music and studied Indian 06070 or AIDS Proied 06106.Khan School~ Arbor Street, Hartford. CT
who contracted AID~
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m:~ v~i of wof
clal bUslness and volunteer servlces. He Is survived bV hls dearly
beloved longtime comP011ion. Jell
Krafthefer. Beloved brother of
Belle Miranda and Debra Rubln.
Beloved uncle of Todd. Tammv,
Steven and Klmbertv. Friends
mav call Thursdav, Jon. 28th 7.9
PM. Reddens Funeral Home, 325
w . 14th St, NYC. Funeral Service
10:30 AM. Friday at The Funeral
Home. Interment MOl)le Grove
Cemetery, Kew Gardens, NY. In
lieu of flowers. donations to PWA
Coalition, 31 W. 26 St, NYC 10010.
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Ch- rles Arthur Russell Jr., 40, Celf
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th Santa Fe N.M. opera and former ad- \
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ministrator of s~vera ew ~r . I Yar s
organizations, died of complications from
AIDS M ch 28. He was 46. / 7/"'j'
, . Chris Ro~ .
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mak, a California AIDS activist w o
founded and served as president of the
AIDS Project of Contra Costa. died
Jan. 23 in Oakland, Calif., of AIDS
J hn
complications. His partner was o
AreAeporler).
Bermudez (Bay
music, died on April 4 at MeHmonal music at the Ali Akbar
Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. ewas San Francisco. In 1981 he began hts I
: ~
40 years old and lived In Manhattan.. own record label, Sleeping Bag Ma¥ IS. 1"11.
He died of AIDS, said Tom Lee, his Records and produced some hit dance FIOVd _. """' . . . , . of - singles 'including "Go Bang!" and :;:::i=.ai:.:::==
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companion.
Mr. Russell, known profess1ona Y as "Wax the Van." He also released two Mn/la ID a. 111111 at HIIIY TrtnllV
Arthur Russell, performed_experlm~n- albums of orchestral music, "lnstru· Chuldl. . , Tlldllr Ave. UIIIDn.
t ls" and "Tower of Meaning," N.J~MWtl.1:IIPM.
tal music widely as a solD1st and with
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other musicians and choreographers at m~ a solo album "World of Echo.''
places like the Kitchen, where he ha~ anH: is survived by his parents,
11.,,..
been a director, ~ Mama an~ Expen· Charles and Emily Russell of Oska· ~=~ltdMrof
mental lntermed1a Foundafuon. Alsba loosa and two sisters, Kate Henry and ~ bv his rnolh9r~....,
cellist, he gave premieres o mus c Y J li • both of Mount Desert Island Me. of Hon01U1u. HaM11L MlfflOl'lal
_ · - arranvementscn.c:=.,f'il!W
composers including Peter Zummo, .. ~ e,
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Kubenstein, stage
av1
manager for the Los Angeles
production of Phantom of"IM
Opera and road manager La
Miserables and Dreamgirla,
died of complications from
AID$ Nov. 24 in New York City.
He was .39. /79-/
Wayne Robicheau
Wayne Robicheau, a native of Dedham,
died Saturday, November 17, after a long
battle with AIDS.
A graduate of Purdue University, Wayne
managed a retail gift store in Chestnut Hill
for a number of years.
Wayne was a ttuly loving man, the soul
of kin~ and generosity. His friends and
family delighted in his company. His talents
in the arts and crafts found expression in the
many gifts he enjoyed making for those
around him. Wayne always made himself
available as a shoulder to lean on and a
to hold- one of those special people who
make the world a better place. To the end,
he remained strong and cheerful, his father
and brother at his side. The warmth of this
man's heart, his gentle smile will remain
with those of us who knew him and loved
him.
In addition to his family, Wayne , is.
survived by a wide circle of friends. Those
interested in creating a quilt in his memory,
please contact Jonathan at 266-0398.
. . Joa Reic•, 39, an artist
and gallery owner known for his
Transparencies I-IV: A Salute to Est cher, and a book of drawings
0,..PU~lish~ last year, The Nudes of Jon
\ Reich, died Sept. 6 in Chicago of
AIDS camplications. His companion
W'5 Robert·Lutz (Ouilines)
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Of Roslindole, Jon. 4., .Robert_ J.
Father of John, David, on<filJ\~11
of Jamaica Plain. Brother of Rev.
Joseph M . Ricord of CT, Roland Ricord o f
CT, Yvon Ricord of SC, the late Margaret
and Armond Ricord. Son of the late Allde
and Alma Ricord. Companion of Stanley
Lowrey. Visiting_ hours will be held
ThurSday 2:00-4:00 and 7:00-9:00 P.M. at
the Mann and Rogers Funeral Home,
M Perkins St., (cor. Of So. Huntington
PLAIN. Funeral Service
Ave.), J
s may be mode to Aids
private.
ee. Retired employee of
Action
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Trucking Co.
the St.
MW I - . o-, fr111111, i .
loWd ~ and IIINffled
teacher. After o bri.t 111""5. Lou
died at home among friends on
June 20, 1992. He was 51. Bom In
Lawrence, MA. he attended
Brldllewater State Teachers Colle;e and Columbia Unillersl!V. He
taught for monv veors 1n the New
York Cltv PUbllc schools. most recentlv as on ESL Instructor at 1.s.
#162. He also Pursued on acting
and slngl1111 career, and was 0
member Of Act°"'Eaultv, AFTRA
and the screen Actors Guild. He ls
SUrvlVed by his COf11POnlon. Luclan Hodlles. of New York E:ltv; his
sister, Lvdlo WIiiiams. brothers
Joseoh onct Jahn Romos and LoUIS DIGlocom0; and niece, Allison
WUltoms. of Lawrence, MA; and
brother Anthony Romos, of MissoulQ. MT. Those fomma1e to
hove known Lou will remember
his warmth and grace, his radiant
smile, his courage, and his lrresPreslbfe. solrtt. He enrtched our
lives. Ond we will de<rtv miss him.
<;ontrlbutions In Lou's ltleniorv
mov be made to loMHCo. u, w.
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p;;&;' HUIJ>fT!llll of Wevnl!)Uth Pau Hulpmaii
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of Weymouth and Rev. B rad ley Hulp,nan of
East Providence, RI, also survived by 8
grand nieces and g rand nephews. Funeral
from the Danle f H . C'ffl Funeral Home,
~~~,n~c:,~-·~
Church at 9 a.m. Relatives and friends lnvtted. Visiting hours Mon., 2 -4 & 7 . 9 Auditor
for Grossman's Lumber, Braintree & former
Heu of flowers
member of the US Arm~fn
ade to
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contributions In his me
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Amar. Cancer Soc!
o mmlt~ - ~ 1 2 Qr , _ Action 021 16
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REIS T E R - Of Georgetown, Christopher
c'.~rg!P~~n d~~c,;>t1 tsH~e!:.';e~~ \~
Malden. He was a Currier for Federal Express. He Is survived by his mother and falh"!. Richard and Suzanne B . (LaCrotxl Lind
of ueorgetown: a brother. David D. R'efster
of Blflenca· 2 sisters. Renee S. Johnson of
Haverhiff.._ Stephanie Aylward of NH: 1 nephew and "' nieces. Fuenraf Service and CallIng Hours will be Monday from 6-9 p .m . at
Ttie Merton E . Roberts Jr. Funeral Home 14 I
~ben:t~s ~:?~~.?d~to
!Ion Commmee of Mass. , 131 Clarendon St
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5th Fir., Boston, MA 02116.
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Kathleen Michael and Elayne. A Memonal
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M ass will be held at St.
on Saturday
!'J Norfolk St. Cambridge Mary·s Church,Jun,
~ 5th at 11 A .M . Relatives and t,iends ma)' cal
at th e family h o me on June 5th from 5 P .Ml
~~~ Jeffrey Raia
~ Christmas.
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passed away just before
It was a busy time of year and
~ many of us did not find out until our January t
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EE'·/ -!''• dinner.
His wife Valerie came to the dinner
and was greeted with sympathies and
expressions of love for Jeffrey. The last time Jeffery
came to the dinner he mentioned that he was so
pleased to be out of the hospital and able to go home
for one last time. He died much loved and and his
spirit, smile, and faith will always remain with Last
Tuesdays.
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great sad!.- ti. unllmelV POSS·
Jng of one ol lM dlnlc's most dedicated and devoted volunteers.
Singer, 59
Alon Rabinovich. Alon was o Shin- )
Ing example of volunteertsm and
Glenn Rowen, a member of the dOnoted counties$ hours to people
and
New York City Opera chorus for 17 I with HIV disease and LesblonAlon
communltv services.
years, died on Sunday at his home In Gov sensitive, coring and o person
was
of extroordlnorv courage and dlgManha~tan. He was 59 years old.
nltv. He was respected and lolled
He died of AIDS, said Susan Woelzl
bV oil We eXPress our ~ s t
' svml>OlhY to Ertc. hil Ille partner.
the opera's director of publlcity.
Mr. Rowen was born in Roswell
N.M., and was a graduate of Indian~
University. He served in the Vnited
States Army in Germany from 1956 to
1962. Following his tour of duty he
sang_with the Munich Opera and' the
Munich Chamber Choir.
e
In addition to th_ New York City
Opera, he sang with the American
Chamber Opera, the Robert Shaw
Chorale, the Harry Belafonte Singers
and the De Paur Chorus. /'Fi?el_
There are no immediate survivors. '
Alon WI! be
oreotlY mllMCI.
,
Jr. ~.
Beloved son
on Nowmbar 1, 1
of Bca1lara Lee Randlett of
Albany, New York and DOUOioss
E. Rondlett, Sr. Of Mitton. Mossachusetts. !lrOndSOn Of Clora I.
Ronellett, obo Of MIiton. Mossochusetts. and onlv brother of
Koren Rondlell Deloney of Scotch
Plains. New Jersev. Devai.cl uncle
Of Elim and Joke Oelonev.
Friends ore Invited to lain Ille
tomllv for the Memorial Service at
Ille Fifth Avenue Prelbvterian
ChUrch at 7 West 55th Sln!et,
New York CltV at 3 P.M. on
Wednesdov, November 4. 1992. In
lieu ,of I ~ do!1otlons In
mov be made to:
Douga AmFAR. 733 Third A - , 12th
Floor, New York. N.Y. 10017.
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O~M-MlcilGIII born June 6th,
1950 In Brookl11n, New Y or1<. resided in Atlanta. Georgt<1 tor 19 veors.
Lifetime companion of C. Poul
ROP&r Loving son of Adele Rosen
Of Miami eeoch, F forido. Devoted
brother of Stephen Rosen of NY.
Dear nephew of Antlo M. Berllier
01 Miami Beoch, Florido. Coring
cousin of Barbara A. eergler of
NY and Marlene Sortino of Mt<IITII,
FforklO. Mr. Rosen passed from
compllcotlons of AIDS. services
were held. Rubln-2Uberf Memort<1I
Ct,opei, Miami ~Florida.
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CRAIG ROWLAND
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Craig Rowland, 42
was urruer, editor
Craig Rowland, a writer and editor who was one of the longest survivors of AIDS in the United States,
died yesterday at his home in the
South End, eight years after being
diagnosed with an AIDS-related disease. He was 42.
Mr. Rowland wrote technical articles for the Massachusetts Department of Mental Health in 1977-79
while practicing psychotherapy and
acting as an advocate for developmentally disabled persons.
Over the years he also wrote
about arts and gay issues for the Advocate the New York Native, the
Villag~ Voice and other publications.
In the early 1980s be was editor of
Upfront America, a gay newspaper
in Houston, where he then lived. He
was also a publications editor f~r the
Department of Cancer Prevention at
the University of Texas.
When he moved to New York l
from Texas in 1983, he worked on
publications for the Memorial SloanKettering Cancer Center.
Increasingly AIDS itself became
Mr. Rowland's topic. Writing a~ut
his personal experiences, he eontnbuted to ''The Sourcebook on Lesbian/Gay Health Care" edited by Michael Shernoff and William A Scott
(1988) and "Personal Dispatches:
Writers Confront AIDS," edited by
John Preston (1988). Also, Mr. Rowland figures prominently as a ch~acter in his friend Paul Mon~tte ~
AIDS memoir, "Borrowed Time,
published in 1988.
Born in Pittsfield, Mr. Rowland
earned a BS in journalism in 1971
and an MS in rehabilitation counseling in 1976 from Boston Unive~ity.
He leaves his mother, Glona, of
Pownal, Vt.; his stepfather, William,
of Cheshire; a sister, Susan, of Newburyport; and a brother, Peter, of
Ithaca, N.Y.
Dr. Thomas Rowe, of Jamaica Plain,
died on Jan. 17, after living with AIDS
since October, 1989. He was 38.
A native of Muirkirk, Scotland, Tom
was educated at the University of SL
Andrews, University College of North
WaJes and University of Binningham,
England. After graduation, he lived in
Belgium and in Milan, Italy, where he
worked for the British Council as Chief
Language Officer for Northern Italy. In
1983,hecametoBoston, whereheeamed
a Doctorate in Education from Harvard.
Since 1987, he was an Assist.ant Professor at Pine Manor College.
Tom is survived by his family in Scotland, and by many loving friends in Italy
and the United States. A memorial service was held o" Jan 25. Donations in
Tom's memory may be made to the Thomas R. Rowe Fund, c/o Pine Manor College, Chestnut Hill, MA 02167.
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Stephen J. Renda
/ '1'1/ Stephen J. Renda, 37, died of AIDS on April 25, after a two-week illness at
Brigham & Women's Hospital in Boston. His companion of six.years, Ron Fleming,
proprietor ofRagtime,Antiques, was at his side. A South End resident, Mr. Renda was
born and raised in Fitchburg. He had worked as a caregiver in the mental health wards
of hospitals in New York and Boston over the last 10 year~.
After having lived and worked in New York, Mr. Renda returned to Massachusetts in 1986. He continued his work at the Veterans Administration and Arbour
Hospitals in Jamaica Plain.
.
· Aqlriet, gentle man devoted to gardening, cooking, reading and theater muS1c,
Stephen made an impact on patients, hospital staff and friends with his compassionate
concern and generosity in helping others.
He is also survived by his parents, Avis and Salvatore Renda, and two
brothers, Paul and David. A memorial service in May for Mr. Renda will follow
cremation. Details of the memorials service will be announ~ed at a later date.
Nelson P. Rivera
Nelson P. Rivera, 41, of Westport, died
Thursday, Dec. 5, 1991 , after a brief illness. He was the son of Graciela Rivera of
Puerto Rico.
He was born in the Bronx, NY ,and lived
in Puerto Rico before moving to Westport.
He was a Spanish bilingual ·instructor at
the Hannigan School in New Bedford. He
was one of the eight finalists for the Massachusetts Teacher of the Year Award. He
was the editor of the Men of All Colors
Together (MACT) BosLOn Newsletter.
Survivors include his mother; his longtimecompanion,John E. Bush of Westport;
a brother and a sister, of Puerto Rico.
We honor Nelson for hi s personal
achievements. He struggled with life while
working Lo improve the lives of other
people. In his teaching job, he created a
wonderful learning environment for students. He brought love and warmth LO his
classroom in so many ways.
We honor Nelson for his contribution
to MACT/Boston. He helped lead the
way to a transition from Black and White
Men Together to MACT because he understood that name to better reflect reality and his vision of the future.
We honor Nelson for his contribution
to NABWMT. He served in many ways
for his two-year Lenn on the board.
We honor Nelson for his contribution
to the work of AIDS prevention. He
supported the National Task Force on
AIDS Prevention and understood the
importance of making connections between AIDS and racism .
Nelson kept the list of members who've
been lost to the AIDS epidemic and collecting momentos or photographs. This
was a simple, quiet duty that he just took
on. We will look back and continue to be
so grateful.
Fred Rubtchinsky
Fred Rubtchinsky, formerly of the
Back Bay and Dorchester, died March 21,
1991, after a brief illness. He was 41 years
old. A graduate of the State University of
New York at Stony Brook, Fred was a
longtime employee of the Boston Park
Plaza Hotel. He began his career there as a
waiter and held numerous positions including Director of Rooms Division. When
not at work, Fred could frequently be
found at the Metropolitan Health Club exercising and doing aerobics.
Donald P. Ruddy, 38,
Fred's favorite pastimes included traveling, dining out or just keeping the company of his many dear friends. He is stJrvived by a large and loving family whose
care and devotion sustained him through
his illness. He also leaves a legacy ot
friends who will cherish his memory.
A memorial servi~ will be held on his
birthday, June 4, 1991, at the Boston Park
Plaza Hotel at 5:00 pm, in the Plaza
Ballroom. All are welcome.
A Fum[ture De,igner
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Donald P. Ruddy, a designer of furniture and accessories and the publisher
of a portfolio of art by people with
AIDS, died on Wednesday at his home
in Manhattan. He was 38 years old.
Mr. Ruddy died of complications
from AIDS, including Kaposi's sarcoma, said his companion, Edgardo Heydra. ·
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He graduated from the U!1ivers1!Y o
Virginia in 1975 with a B.S. m architecture. Mr. Ruddy later founded Ruddy
Design and Ruddy Products, two co_ m
panies that specialized in innov_u-.:e
a
furniture and graphics. Included m J:ns
, products were tables, lamps and chairs
I made of pastel-colored concrete and
diaries and calendars of alumir,lum and
natural ash.
In 1989, Mr. Ruddy organized and
published "A Hundred Legends," a
boxed portfolio of artwork ma~e . by
people living with AIDS. Shown m art
galleries across the country, the portfolio presented a continuing fund-raising
campaign that benefited Northern
Lights Alternative and the Design Industries Foundation for AIDS.
Mr. Ruddy is survived by his par
ents Julie and Walter Ruddy of Rock
N.J.; a brother, Dr. Richard, of Cincin~
nati, and a sister, Barbara Barant of
Wheat Ridge, Colo.
Andrew William Rounbehler
Andrew William Rounbehler sucumbed to AIDS-related cancer on June
5, 1990. He was born on June 1, 1956.
drew was a resident of Decatur Street in
harlestown for the last two years. Prior
o that, he lived in East Boston and
evere.
He is survived by his constant
ompanion, Chad Stiffey, his parents, six
ers and sisters in Arizona.
Andrew worked quite extensively for
e AIDS Action Committee buddy
rogram, giving talks on living with
S. He also spoke for the Theological
eminary. He and his contributions will
greatly missed by all. He was a
onderful man.
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Canadian female
impersonator, 42
Andrew William Rounbehler
David P. Riel
David P. Riel, 28, of Washington,
D.C., and formerly of Monson, Massachusetts, died on Thanksgiving Day
1990 of complications associated with
AIDS at the George Washington University Hospital in D.C.
Born in Monson, he attended local
schools. He graduated third in his class at
Monson High School in 1980 and played
first singles on the school's tennis team.
He had been active in the Monson Summer Theater. He also graduated cum laude
from Georgetown University in 1985.
He worked as a restaurant manager and
waiter at several hotels and restaurants in
the District of Columbia, including the
Ritz-Carlton, the Willard, the Radisson,
Jean-Louis and Glorious Cafe.
He was a communicant of St. Patrick's
Church in Monson and of Dignity/Washington.
He leaves his lover, Mark Bult, of
D.C.; his parents, Alfred J. and Joan C.
(Jolly) of Monson; a brother, Stephen J.
of Amherst; a sister, Cynthia A. Guidara
of Upton; and his paternal grandmother,
Eva A. Wheeler of Worcester.
The funeral was held November 26 at
St. Patrick's Church with burial in
Bethany Cemetery in Monson. A memorial service is planned by Dignity/Washington at a later date.
Memorial contributions may be made
to the Monson Summer Theater, in cae
of Tess Pelissier, 12 Main St., Monson,
MA 01057; or to AIDS Allies, Inc., 93A
Mill Park, Springfield, MA 01108.
TORONTO - Female impersonator Craig Russell has
died of a stroke resulting from
AIDS, a hospital official said
yesterday. He was !2..
The actor died Tuesday
night at Toronto Western Hospital.
Mr. Russell became an international box office success
with the 1977 movie "Outrageous," a low-b~dge!, se1:11iautobiographical film m which
he performed many of his impersonations.
He acted in nightclubs and
on television after that, and in
1986 did a sequel to his film hit
called "Too Outrageous."
·
Born in Toronto, Mr. Russell
began his performing career on
the city's homosexual club circuit and was also known for his
impersonations of Judy Garland, Bette Davis and other
Hollywood stars.
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RoyReid
Formerly a dancer with Boston and Zurich.ballets
MemCl'ial service will be held for Roy sels, the Zurich Ballet and the Dallas Ballet
"Something keeps me going... God perReid at Cub Cabaret, part of Cub Cafe,
209 Columbus Avenue in Boston, on No- haps and life itself. Life is precious... "
vember 25, 199( · ·
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Roy wm
a ballet dancer wilb and lO express the' sadness of his passing.
die Boston Ballet. rhe Bejart ballet in Brus- .
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Wllllam Roble, chief immigration judge in the Department of
Justice's executive office for immigration review, died of conwlicauons from AIDS Oct. 18 m Alexandria, Va. He was 48. /-'7'7:;;L...
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Long time companion of Stephen
Pratt. Servlees Cllld Interment private. Contributions mode In Stan·
lev's memorv to cabrlnl HoSPltol
HosPlce Program, 227 East 19 St,
NY 10003, WOUid IW-eclaled.
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Sea°liins Relatives and friends are Invited to
attend his memorial service to be held Mon
Wed sediw at 11 a.m. at the home o 1 r.
and
Richard Schena, 86 North Broad
way Haverhill. Qonatlons 1n his men:,ory
mav' be made • Iha Aids Action Committee
of Mass. tnc , S1 C181'andon St. Boston,
MA 02111,.
'Mrs
Tony Richardson, the Director
Of 'Tom Jones,' ls Dead at 63
By JAMES BARRON
Tony Richardson, who won an Oscar Y.es,tm~nts. I~ October 1960,. he said,
for the film "Tom Jones," died yester- It s 1mposs1ble to make ftlms that
~ day at St. Vincent's Medical Center in appeal to everyone, and the only solut!on is to make them at a nonprohibi::U":=.v~~~c:! Los Angeles. He was 63 years old.
He died of a neurological infection uve cost, and to try to adhere to a
llln communHV, teleYllkln 1nc1us1111 manv frlendl. He Is that was apparently brought on by st~ong, independent point of view that
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i;: AIDS, said his physician, Dr. Michael J. will appeal to at least one body of
ri.n. rno1t11r ClcrQ. lister .Man. Scolaro. Mr. Richardson developed a customers : the ones who want to be
:W~c::-'~0:-: fever after ·treatment last Saturday, stimulated by provocative ideas."
'Full of Color and Fun•
to fOIIOW. ~llullOIII ~ ot and he became semicomatose on MonPerhaps his best-known film was
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day, Dr. ~olaro ~id.
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Mr. Richard~ s career beg~n m " Tom Jones," an adaptation of the
,rect- Henry Fielding novel about a young
bY hll la¥lnl CX111IOCll1fllti-AI Dim. ~953, when he Jomed th~. BBC, d,1
mg such p~u~!ions as ~thello and man's life in 18th-century England. " l
~ Dostoyevsky s Gambler. In 1955, he wanted to get away from the rainy,
~llowed a BBC colleague, George J?e· industrial cities of the North," Mr.
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flowert, c111na11on1 ID God's i.~ vme, to the ne":IY formed ~nghsh Richardson said. " I wanted something
11Sua:).-11·u Sta~e ~ompany, first as ~s~oc1att: a~- full of color and fun and it suddenly hit Tony Richardson
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Delllln MICIClalft 1ne.
"Tom Jones:, won · three Oscars. magazine interviewer in 1963. He add
11ome III New vcn. on JUM 3, lish Stage Thea~er ha~ been formed "to
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bOm III Phi1993. '*· '1DIS ~ ter mutually aware of each other .. I best P!Cture, best scree~wnter and, for ed that he hoped that this "essentia
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From the600-seat Roya~ Court Thea-. In recent months he directed "Blue life.
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c11111c1we llefore estdllllhlnll ter, where ground-breakmg
At Oxford University, where he was
RJUt. Delllll A110C1am, wtiere Shaw and Ibsen had been introduced to Sky, starrmg Jessica Lange and TomEnglish audiences a half-century earli- my Lee Jones. It 1s to be released next president of the college's dramatic
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society, he directed "Peer Gynt," "Ro.
c:hltect far the USO 1nte1nattooa1. er, the English Stage Company set out year.
meo and
=...bYo1'*S: to break new ground of its own. The · Mr. Richardson was born on June 5, graduatedJuliet" and "King John." He
in 1952.
Yllle,NJ.hlrllulbClndRonald.Kar· first play Mr. Richardson directed 1928, in Shipley, Yorkshire, the son of a
He is survived by three daughters,
cllOr~ there was one that had been rejected druggist. When his secondary school
't;:..~
the actresses Natasha Richardson and
~ - ~ In • llllfflOl'Y by every agent who had seen it: John was moved to the country in World War
Back in Anger." II and es~nt!ally fell ap~rt. he spent Joely Richardson, and Katherine Gri~.._'iv. to . . AnWrlCClil Osborne's "Look
Transplanted to Broadway where it much of his ume wandenng the coun- mond. Mr. Richardson married the ac--.. -- -· tress Vanessa Redgrave in the early
opened in October 1957, it ra~ for more tryside.
"I hated all authority,'' he told a 1960's. They were divorced in 1967.
to twrV- a. kMw. than 400 performances and won the
111m
:C.~l1eio:'_: Drama Critics Circle Award as the
hUlbClild to Rlllhe, a $U11P0111Ye, best foreign play of the year.
dtYOlvd father to Jane and Bob.
Starting a Company
MlctMal. JOIIOlhOn, and e11en;
dartlna grandlalhel to Jenna,
Mr. Richardson and Mr. Osborne deShannOn. Mlehele, and Jake; and
cided not to sell the screen rights of
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WhakMWhlm.servtcel2:30P.M.. "Look Back in Anger" to a major stu~~: dio. Instead, they started a film compaTony Richardson directed movies for over 30 years. These are the
Memortal contrlbUtlOns mav be ny of their own, Woodfall Film Producfilms he made.
1~ , ' : lions Ltd. The film version of "Look
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Charge of the Light Brigade 1968
Look Back in Anger 1959
or Fcx:e 1 1 1 ~ Back in Anger" opened in 1959 with Mr.
Laughter in the Dark 1969
The Entertainer 1960
at ho';! Richardson as director and a cast that
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included Richard Burton and Claire
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Hamlet 1970
Sanctuary 1961
Bloom. The company's second film,
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Ned Kelly 1970
A Taste of Honey 1961
"The Entertainer,'' featured Sir LaurA Delicate Balance 1973
The Loneliness of the Long Disence Olivier as a down-at-the-heels mutance Runner 1962
sic hall comedian.
Joseph Andrews 1977
Mr. Richardson made his first HollyTom Jones 1963
The Border 1982
wood film in 1960, "Sanctuary," for
The Loved One 1965
The Hotel New Hampshire 1984
. 20th Century Fox. It was based in part
a.A..
Mademoiselle 1966
on a Faulkner novel, and Mr. RichardHills Like White Elephants 1989
son said the result was "very bad."
1\Hadlikliis DlllaR. He •
The Sailor From Gibraltar 1967
Blue Sky, 1991
But he was also critical of the big
.a-dou!IIIW..S
his
Red and Blue 1967
Hollywood studios, accusing them of
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John Fredric Remis lost his battle with
hiJ
to him. Even throughout his illness,
attentiveness, concern, and support for~
ers never wavered. On his worst days, be
rallied his marvelous sense of humor to lift
the spirits of those around him.
John's limitl~ capacity to relish life
served as an inspiration while he lived and is
his greatest legacy to those he leaves behind.
It is this and his unwavering love and devo,,.
lion that his partner, David McFarland, i..
parents,RobertandRuthRemis,lmbrodaet,
Richard Remis, and his dear friends hold in
their hearts in bis memorv.
Vit o Ru sso : Au tho r of Tlie Cel lulo id Closet,
chr oni cle r of Ho llyw ood 's exc ess es, die s at 44
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life's work, both scholarly and delightfull
gossipy, an invaluable reference to anyone,
The death of film historian, writer and
gay or non-gay, with even a passing interes~
AIDS activist Vito Russo from AIDS Noinfilm.CananyonewatchBen-Huragainthe
but
vember 7 means the silence of one man
same way knowing that actor Stephen Boyd
nottheend
was playing the part of the frustrated exoftheworlc
lover to Chuck Heston's virtuous gladiator?
he started.
Russo unearthed gems and oddities which
Toconmight otherwise have been lost forever. He
sider the
uncovered a gay cowboy who blew kisses at
impact of Russo's work on modem film
his hero Stan Laurel in the 1923
criticism, you must first realize that
silent film The Soilers. He found
before his writings the exanuna- 2
the one tender embrace cut from
lion of gays in cinema wasn't even ~
the hopelessly patheticBoys in the
considered a valid field of study. §
Band. He discussed the gay senThe mainstream press wasn't insibility of director James Whale
clined to think about it, and the gay u
and how it influenced his two
synthepress had no reference to
great horror movies.Frankenstein
size the images of gay women and _
and The Bride of Frankenstein.
men on the big screen. Most people,
(Whale's refusal to cower in the
gays and liberal straights alike, ercloset cost him his career.)
the depictions
roneously believed
Russo proved that movies
were few and that their signifiwhich were allegedly about hocance was negligible.
mosexuality, lilce 1956's Tea and
Russo proved them all wrong
Sympathy, weren't really about
with The Celluloid Closet, first
homosexuality at all. He traced
published in 1981 and then again in
the development of a modem sterevised form in 1987 by Harper
reotype, the suicidal gay, to films
and Row. The crowning achievelike The -Children's Hour and
ment of Russo's career, the book
Advice and Consent. And he was
firmly placed homosexuals in the
always willing to butt heads with
context of the American dream as
his more. egocentric colleagues,
portrayed in film, and explored how
suchaspowerfulNew Yorkercritic
cinematic fiction mirrored and
Pauline Kael.
magnified societal homophobia.
Again from The Celluloid
In his introduction to the reCloset: "Choosing to ignore that
...The
vised edition, Russo wrote,"
gay in the same way
people
big lie about lesbians and gay men
that peo e are short or blond or
is that we do not exist. The story of
ful _political stance
left-handed is a
the ways in which gayness has been defiaed
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Douglas Keith Runte
tering political debate on whether homoJune 7, 1956-Ma rdi I, 1993
In Hollybering my good friends - sexuaJs have a right to exist at all.uals have
As in a soul remem
Love makes you real, that is the gifi
therefore, homosex
wood films,
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not been people; they have been a dramati
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artist,
device used to shock and sell."
ra:alled facets 0
in American film is the story of the ways in
which we have been defined in America. ..As
expressed on screen, America was a dream
that had no room for the existence of homosexuals. Laws were made against depicting such things on screen. And when the
fact of our existence became unavoidable,
we were reflected, on-screen and off, as dirty
secrets."
The book was a masterful blend of his
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Vito Russo: A critical eye on Hollyw ood's excesse s
( continued from page one)
It seems oddly fitting, almost a Hollywood twist in itself, that a man who devoted
much of his career to documenting the film
industry's abuses (the "Hollywood horror
show," he called it) and demanding more
realistic gay images would end up as one of
the "stars" of an award winning movie Common Threads: Stories from the Quiltwhich won the 1989. Oscar for best documentary. In that movie Russo talked abQ_ut
·ck in 1986 to
losin his lover Jeffr
AIDS and of his own battle with the disease.
With a mixture of humor and horror,
Russo told the cameras bow the spot on the
back of his knee was initially diagnosed as a
simple mole. Then two days later his doctor
called and said the lab had switched his
results with that of an 86-year-old woman.
"At that point I sort of felt like Susan
Hayward in/Want to live, with the governor
giving her a pardon and the phone ringing
every five minutes. It just drives you nuts."
Russo's reaction to his diagnosis of Kaposi's
sarcoma was perfectly in character: "I immediately got angry and did everything I
could do to learn about the disease."
To call Russo an AIDS activist is more
than simply bowing to transient standards of
political correctness. He joined ACT UP and
threw his voice and body on the line for just
about any protest he could find. He didn 't
want to die, he didn't want to end up as a
panel on the Quilt, and he used every microphone, every periodical be could reach,
to spread that message. •
Russo continued his feisty writings right
up until his death. In one of his last pieces for
The Advocate, he tweaked New Age messiah
Shirley MacLaine for dodging him for the
last decade to talk about her role as the
suicidal lesbian in The Children's Hour. He
demonstrated with a review of the gangster
movie Miller' s Crossing how a film which
depicts gays on par with straights isn 'talways
Richard A. Ru,kay
Restaurateur, 443 #&M
Richard A. Ruskay, a res(a'u rateur
on Manhattan's Upper West Side, died
on Monday at his home in Manhattan.
He was 44 years old.
He died after a brief illness, his family said.
Mr. Ruskay was a founding partner
with Jack Doenias and Carl Laanas in
the Empire Diner, the Art Deco restau
nuu that they refurbished in 1976. Open
24 hours, its trendy stainless-steel
' chrome and black-glass presence o~
10th Avenue at 22d Street has since
become a Chelsea landmark.
The partners first started Ruskay's
on Columbus Avenue in 1976.
His companion was Murray Paster
of Manhattan.
Mr. Ruskay is survived by his mothy of Port Chester, N.Y.,
er, Rita R
"°d a bnlber. Robert, of Rye Brook,
a step forward. In his
September 25 column
for the same periodical,
he had decided that we
as a community must
take some of the blame
for Hollywood's abuse.
"We have no acceptable
context, and it's up to
us to create one by being more open about
who we are. Then we
will be people and not
targets."
· VitoRussowasonly
44 years old when he
died. Even the stodgy
New York Times acknowledged the importance of his contributions, granting him an
eight-and-one-halfinch
obituary. · The paper
called him a "gay advocate" and recognized
his late "companion"
Jeffrey Sevick. Omitted from the list of survivors were his legions
of fans and scores of
activists (including
many members of the
Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation-GLAAD) whom
he inspired.
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One o, usso ' s endurmg legacies: The CeUul 01"d Closet
Russo wrote four years ago, "Hollywood
is too busy trying to make old formulas hit
the jackpot_ again to see the future. Hollywood is yesterday, forever catching up tomorrow with what's happening today. This
will change only when it becomes financially profitable, and reality will never be
profitable until society overcomes its fear
and hatred of difference and begins to see
that we're all in this together."
Hollywood isn't any less homophobic
today, but thanks to the work of Vito Russo,
its shameful history fs well documented. It's
up to us to continue his work, to take the next
step, to hold it accountable to the truth ofour
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lives.
JeffRoe hl
Ran Free Ticket Program at AIDS ACTION
JeffRoehl ofBack Bay, Boston.died peacefully at the Mission Hill Hospice on May 14.
It was a sunny, breezy day, Jefrs favorite
kind of weather for biking around Lown.
Jeff was born in Elm Grove, Wisconsin,
went to school there, and received his BA
degree from the University of Wisconsin. He
lived for a Lime in Colorado, was a real tor for
several years in Dallas, Texas, and moved to
Boston in 1985. In recent years, Jeff did
v<;>l~nteerworkat the AIDS Action Committee, for a while running the Free Ticket Program.
Jeff loved sailing, hiking, visiting with
friends Rob Whiunan and Jeff Munger in
their weekend home in Dartmouth , going
to concerts with his Boston Globe critic
friend Tony Tommasini, and, especially,
hanging out with his longtimecompanion
Hal Johnston.
Jeff is survived by his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Thomas Roehl and his sister Pamela
Hochmuth. His remains were interred in
Elm Grove, Wisconsin.
There will be a memorial service for
Jeff on Saturday, July 11 in the Holmes
Living Room , North House, Radcliffe
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Sanford Reder, M.D.
Co-foun<Jp of Gay Health Collective at FCHC
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Sanford looer, M.D., formerly of
Boston, died November 29 in Los Angeles
of complications due to AIDS. He was 51.
Prior to his death, he was the director of
the Chemical Dependency Program fro the
CIGNA Health Plan. Los Angeles.
Born and raised in Manhattan. he graduated with honors from Columbia College
in 1960 and from Albert Einstein College
of Medicine in 1964. He was an intern and
resident at Boston City Hospital and Georgetown Medical Center, D.C. and completed fellowships in Hematology at Beth
Israel Hospital and Health Care Research
at the Harvarcl Center for Community
Health and Medical~During the 1970s, Sandy worked as
Associate Medical Director for the Boston
Evening Clinic, as ,a staff physician for
the the MIT Medical Department, as Medical Director of the Harvard Street Neighborhood Health Center, and as Medical Director for the Employee Health Service at
Boston City Hospital.
In the mid-seventies, he was one of the
ounders of the Gay Health Collective at
enway Community Health Center. He
also served is Medical Consultant and on
the Board of Directors of the Homophile
ommuili.ty Health Service, and paniciled in developing and delivering curric~
la in human sexuality for medical stuat Boston University, Tufts, and
ir• ..,.,.n1 Medical Schools. In 1981, he bee a Resident in Psychiatry at the
bridge H(!Sl)ital and began his wort in
l'J'
the addictions as the Medi~al Director,
Drug Problem Resource Center, Cambridge, MA.
In 1985, Sandy was able to combine
his diverse skills as an internist, a psychiatrist and a program administrator and
made a significant contribution to the field
of addictions as the Director of the Chemical Dependency program for the CIGNA
Health Plan. As a respected caregiver,
teacher and program developer, he was the
recipient of the CIGNA Community Service Award in 1990 and held an appointment as a lecturer at UCLA Medical
School.
Sandy was a person of strong intellect,
drive and intense passions. His love for
music, opera, friendships and fme food
were surpassed only by his extreme dislike
for the tacky, the dishonest and the boring.
He was rarely indifferent to anything and
rarely was anyone indifferent about him.
He was fully present in our lives and liis
death leaves a large void.
Sandy Reder is survived by his companion, Larry Re; his daughter and son-inlaw, Alison and Dan Hagney; his son,
Mark; as well as bis close friends, Don
_
Bunson, Joel Hencken, Deborah Heller,
Lucy Ann Geiselman and Bob Harrington.
Donations in Reder's memory may be
made to the UCLA School of Medictne. A
memorial service will be held on Sunday,
December 16, at the Friend's Meeting at
Cambridge, 5 Longfellow Park (off Brattle
Street in Cambridge).
· James Revson, a society columni~~
Newlday, died yesterday at s""l
f.uke's-Roosevelt Medical Center
Manhattan. He was 38 years old
iUved In Manhattan and Sag Harbor,
1.:.1.
· .Mr. Revson died of AIDS, a spok
woman for Newsday said.
,,In recent years, Mr. Revson, who had
~ on leave from Newsday since last
fall, had been active in fund-raising
i;yents to benefit AIDS patients.
He joined Newsday in 1984 as architecture and design writer, and in 1988
began writing tl1e paper's society col\,llllll, "Social Studies." That year he became celebrated himself after reportlng that a lot of celebrities reported by
Suzy, the gossip columnist of 1be New
York Post, to have attended a gala at
the Metropolitan Museum of Art had
not been there at all.
SUzy later acknowledged her a~
sence, but called Mr. Revson a "a jerk"
aad "a know nothing," turning the
clash of columnists into a summer
week's worth of national stories.
Others called the contretemps the reyenge of the Revsons, mindful that
Suzy had reported that Mr. Revson's
aunt and uncle, Martin and Eleanor
Revson, were planning a divorce.
Before joining Newsday, Mr. Revson
had been arts and weekend editor of
1be Stamford Advocate and Greenwich Time and had been managing editor of 1be Bridgehampton Sun on Long
Island.
He was a graduate of Hiram COilege
in Hiram, Ohio, and received a master's degree from the COiumbia School
of Journalism.
the
Mr. Revson was the son of _ late
Joseph Revson, who was co-founder,
with bis brother Charles, of Revlon, the
co!lmetic coml)ll!ly.
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MA!tsd Riegle, 48
¥u Q>we Bl»KG died on Friday,
December~. 1992 at her home in_Pinckney, Michigan, of cancer, according to
her friend, Steve Haight of Washington,'
D.C.
.
Rowe volunteered for several years at
the Whibnan-WaJker Clinic as a counselor on the AIDS information line. Haight
said he met Rowe in 1985 when he was
volunteering at the Clinic.
"I was struck by her concern about the
AIDS crisis and by her dedication to her
volunteer w~" Haight .said.
Rowe lived in D.C. for 13 years,
beginning in 1977, when she began
working as a cost analyst for Information
Spectrum, Inc. Born in Michigan and
raised in Pennsylvania, Rowe graduated
from Carnegie-Mellon University in
Pittsburgh, Pa., in 19TI with an economics degree, according to HaighL
In 1988, Rowe began working with
1be Analytic Sciences Ccxp., in Arlington, Va., as a seDiar cost analyst. In 1991,
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Miehae1 ~ office manager
the Gay Community News since
19'18, died of AIDS last Friday at
Beth Iane1 Hospital. He was 48 and
lved in the Fenway.
MJ:. Riegle founded a national
prison project that provides irnoates
around the country with pen pals, intormation and advocacy services.
A native of Garyt Ind.,. Mr. Riegle gnduat.ed from Knox
and received a PhD in psyclio
.
from the Unlvenity of Minnesot.a.
Before joining the gay
hen, he wurked in Franee and Italy
• an Eualsli taeher and tnnslator.
Se waa ftuant in Italian, French,
Raeslan, Greek and Spanish
He liavea three close friends, '
1,,Jq Hc6Mm, Lole Hayes and Rob
~ al of Beaton.
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shortly after her marriage in December
1990, she moved to Pinckney with her
husband. She continued working with
Analytic Sciences, at their Detroit, Mich.,
office.
Rowe was a member of two choirs, the
Oratorio Society of Washington and Masterworks Chorus of Potomac, Md.
In addition to Haight, Rowe is survived
by her husband, Benjamin Rowe of
Pinckney; parents, Paul and Verna Co~n
of Buder, Pa.; sister, Theresa Muir, of
Batavia, Ill.; and many friends in the D.C.
area.
A memorial service will be held on
Friday, Dec. 18, at the .Little Falls
Presbyterian Church, Falls Church, Va.,
at 4 p.m. A reception at the church will
follow.
Memorial contributions in Rowe's
name many be made to the WhibnanWalker Clinic, 1407 S SL, NW, Washington, DC 20009.
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complications related to AIDS
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Reed had AIDS
Robert Reed, the Brady
Bunch dad who died last week
at age 59, had AIDS.
The actual cause of his May
12 death was listed as "colon
lymphoma," or colon cancer.
But the "human immunodeficiency virus infection" was
listed as a "significant contribution to death," according to
Reed's State of California
as music director at several ch
death certificate - obtained
in the area, including the Churcll
the Redeemer in Chestnut Hill and by Geraldo Rivera's Now It
and Grace Church in Providence. He Can Be Told for today's show
was especially known for his work and obtained Tuesday by The
~iated Press.
with choirs.
H. Rex Greene, the PasadeIn the early 1980s, Mr. Roma- na doctor who signed the death
towski started a second career in certificate, would not disc~
computer technology, holding poll- Reed's death. "That's confidentions ip and around Boston, most re- 1tial information," Greene says.
cently as a senior consultant at \ "Whatever Geraldo feels like
Bachman Information Syst.ems in saying_is between _him and his
non-eXIstent conscience."
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He leaves. his longtime partner, \it." said Reed's spokesman, Michael Hartig, who last week deRon Rakowski.
A musical memorial service will nied the actor had AIDS.
"Because of his career, and
be held June 3 at 7:30 p.m. in All
pespite his sexual preference, I
Saints' Church Brookline.
,believe it was very hard for
'
him to acknowledge that he
David Maxwell Robinson J was gay," says Robert Huerta,
who appears on Now It Can Be
Sept 3, 1947-Jan.28, 1993
Told and is described as a close
friend of Reed's.
On Th~.january 28, 1993, Davi
Others on the show include
Maxwell Robin-
was 37.
A native of New York, Mr.
matowski studied music at O
College and received a master's
gree from the New England Co
vat.ory of Music.
Mr. Romatowski held posi ·
I\
son surrendered
. peacefully 1D God.
. He left this life
in the company
. of loving friends
' and family.
David was
born in Palestine,
Texas on September 3, 1947.
After graduating
from Palestine
School, he went on to Sam
1
Huston State College and graduated
from the University of Texas at Austin. ·
David arrived in San Francisco in
1979; his love of the city was immediate
and intense, and it never flagged.
David worked at the Pacific Stock Exchange before joining Dean Witter,
where he worked for ten years until
retiring in 1992. David loved tending
his garden; he bad a flair for flower arraging which cheered his home.
David's spiritual life was nourished by
the liturgy and community of Trinity
Episcopal Church; which he joined in
1988.
David is survived by his partner,
Reginald Hsu; pan,n1B, San and Joan
of Palestine, Teas; brother Fred of
Austin, Teas; and an extended family
of friends in San Franciaco and around
the country.
A memorial service will be held at
2 p.m. on Saturday, February 27, 1993,
at 11inity Epiacq)al Cbun:h, 1668 Bush
Street, San Francisco.
LARRY RILEY' /€'/9'~
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REED: Death certificate listed
HIV as a contributing factor.
Larry Riley, 39,
was featured on
'Knots Landing'
BURBANK, Calif. - Larry
Bill Elie!, a Reed "confidant''
since befriending the actor in a Riley, a featured actor in tbe
gay bar more than 20 years nighttime soap opera ''Knota
ago, and Mike Stout, a bartend- Landing," died from kidney
er who waited on Reed for 30 failure as a complication of
years at another gay night spot, AIDS, a series spokesman said.
the now-defunct Raincheck He was 39.
Mr. Riley died Saturday at
Club in Hollywood.
Reed's marriage ended in di- St. Joseph's Medical Center.
vorce in 1959. He is survived by Show spokesman Paul Gendreau said yesterday the actor
a daughter, Karen, 35.
In this week's People maga- had been ill for several month&
Mr. Riley played Frank Wilzine, his "close friend" Anne
Haney, says Reed "came from liams, who arrived in Knots
the old school, where people Landing four years ago with
his wife and daughter while
had a sense of decorum."
- Ann Trebbej hiding out in the federal witness protection program.
An accomplished musician.
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Mr. Riley composed scores for
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AIDS. He wiu • mlllld 111y hll ' Thomas Block Rubnitz, an artist and
aeries and sang on camera.
:,~°'=,.:..V~;tilm maker, died on Wednesday at the
He won last year's Soap
lncluclne Chrla ano Kall¥ s.m.r- Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer CenOpera Digest Award for best
ter
~ie.::.:.':':.~ci!C:.:"1e• and in Manhattan. He was 36 years old 1 supporting actor in a primelived in Manhattan.
ltollerahtD 1n ttie fleld o, IOdCII
time drama. In 1982, Mr. Riley
~ He died of AIDS, his family said.
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- Mr. Rubnitz, a native of Chicago, was received the Obie and Clarence
bOlh harmonic anc1 COffl9Ullr
in.volved in art and music in the East Derwent awards for his role u
Village in the 19SO's. His paintings are c.J. Memphis in the Pulitzer
Prize-winning "A Soldier'•
Of Mmlhalton in the Chase Manhattan Bank collec
Play." He later starred in the
tlon, among others.
His videos have been shown at the film adaptation titled "A Sol11 v~ tn NVC died on FrldaV,
~C:,a:;'.~~~i::; , hltney Museum, on national public dier's Story."
Fifth AYWllw, Where his Funen:it elevlslon, and at film festivals in GerMr. Riley also appeared ID
~11ea1":~M.on~'. f.JlY, Japan, Italy and England. The
the 1984 Louis Ma!le movie
rts. hlS friend. asks that flowers or -52's, David Byrne and Ann Magnu"Crackers" and starred in the
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He Is survived by his parents, Dr.
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He is survived by his wife,
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Maur ice J. Roy
u1J'7'°'n and research assistant
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.l committal service will be held
Dec. 16 at 7 p.rn. in the Church of St.
Maurice J. Roy, 37, of Worcester, died
of complication s from AIDS on Friday,
February 8, 1991. His final days passed
peacefully, surrounded by family and
friends at the Hospice al Mission Hill.
Born December 19, 1953 in St. Paul,
New Brunswick, Canada, the son of the
late Jean Batiste and Laura (Gaillet) Roy.
Maurice came to the United States in
I 960, settling with his family in
Fitchburg. A 1972 graduate of Fitchburg
High School, he was most recently employed as a machine operator at Danafilms
Corp. in Westboro.
Maurice will best be remembered for
his love of life, his warm personality, and
his outrageous sense of humor. His ability
to make others laugh endeared him to everyone he meL
Maurice leaves his five brothers;·
Bernard and Paul of Leominster; Roderick
of Fitchburg; Romeo of Manchester, CT;·
and Ronald of Stafford Springs, CT. He
also leaves two sisters; Bertha Landry of
Leominster; and Fernande Testa of
Fitchburg; along with several nieces and
nephews. He also leaves close friends;
David Conti of Worcester; Michael
Carigan of Waltham; as well as numerous
other friends in Worcester, Boston, and
Provincetown, the latter in which he en-.
joyed spending his summers.
A funeral Mass attended by family and
friends was said at SL Paul's Cathedral in
Worcester. Donations in Maurice's memory may be made to the Hospice at
Mission Hill, 20 Parker Hill A venue,
Boston, MA 02120.
J oann Marie Ruiz·
First health care worker who was
infected with HN on the job
SACRAMEN TO (AP) - A nurse who tective mask, gown and gloves, but the
was one of the nation's first health-care syringe slipped and the needle plunged into
worker to contract HIV on the job has died her right thigh.
In September 1987, on her 39th birth at the age of 42.
June 3 in her day, Ruiz learned she had AIDS.
Joann Marie Ruiz died
In 1988, the federal Centers for Disease
Sacramento home from complication s of
AIDS, nearly four years after being acci- Control reported the· first health-care
dentally stuck with a contaminated needle worker had developed Lhe disease, but it did
at Mercy Hospital, said her companion, not reveal the worker's identity.
Tutor said June 5 that Ruiz was the first
Linda Tutor.
Ruiz went public with her story, de- worker to get the disease on Lhe job. CDC
scribing how the disease brought her dis- officials referred inquiries to state
crimination and rejection, even by her Department of Health Services officials,
who said Ruiz was the first
family.
However, an Iowa nurse, Barb
"She was never ashamed of having the
Fassbinder, said in 1990 she contracted
illness," Tutor said. "She stressed that everyone should take every precaution and HIV in August 1986. She does not have
AIDS, but docs have health problems reprovide care with compassion."
Ruiz had said she hoped she could show lating to the virus.
After contracting the disease, Ruiz volthe public, especially heterosexual s , that
affli ct homosexuals unteered with the Sacramento A IDS
AIDS does not just
Foundation's Hand to Hand Project as an
and drug users.
Ruiz had said the accident happened in emotional-su pport counselor to people
July 1987 after she had drawn blood from with AIDS .
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an AIDS patient She was dressed in a pro-
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John the Evangelist, Beacon Hill, for
James E. Ryder of Boston, a research assistant at the Mugar Memorial Library at Boston University
and a member of For Four, a local
recorder quartet.
Mr. Ryder died Nov. 13 in St.
John of God Hospital, Brighton. He
.
was 33.
A native of Mastic Beach, N.Y.,
Mr. Ryder graduated from the New
E ngland Conservatory of Music in
1987. He taught and gave recitals on
the recorder and lute at the Performing Arts School of Worcester in
1987-88. He was also a member of
Viscera Fancied, a recorder duet.
Mr. Ry!r leaves a brother,
of Long Island; and a
Nicholas J.
friend, Robe E. Grady of Boston.
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MAX Roa1NSON;·the former ABC
News television anchorman who was
the first black man to coanchor a network evening news program, died of
complication s from AIDS Dec. 20 at
Howard University Hospital in Washington, D.C. He was 49. /J./a,o
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Robinson anchored the program in
the early 1980s but left the network in
1984 to take a job at a Chicago television station. Suffering from emotional and physical _exhaustion, he
entered a hospital that specializes in
alcohol rehabilitation in June 1984 and
worked only sporadically afterward.
Rev. Jesse Jackson, a friend of
, Robinson's, told reporters that he had
talked to Robinson about how he had
contracted AIDS and said that Robinson had told him, "It is not homosexuality, but it was promiscuity... . Let
my predicament be a source of educat:f[f'
tion to our people." /
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C/
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Loving
Janice Roy
ofof~~
aranctson of Eliz
NH. Devoted brother of ,k:heal .............
ka. Stept:ieo of Plymouth. NH and~~
~ ~morkll
~·fJin ~1at Bl~w ~~·
serlce will be held
~ C ~ m e : V f ~ ~ ciMi
Mendsresl)!!C;ffunv Invited. In ReU
f!'A...memorlal contributions
cion"s A I D S ~C o m ~
~ts~
Ol'II05ton.
3!'=
'1'11 .~WW.
AIDS. OriOlnallv from Ft.
... and former1v of Cl*-' . .
llvwd In Manhattan and ~
...-.ci from AT&T CCSlltal CCIII).
In ParslllPanv, NJ. SurvlYed 111¥
, IIIOl!Wr, Marcia J. Robbins faltllr,
Clifford E. Robbins; and nlOn and domestic panner, Danie!
G. Hladik. Alla survlVed 11¥ grand,
mother, Virginia M. K - sister,
NICole M. Qlr1stman; and friends. f
INrl, . . . . ,
ftow •
sen1
s=-
VOit&
Md 8laff
note
Of Gay MelW's
with ~ lhe death of Orlando
Rios. Mr. Rios was the ltrst bar
to ooen the doors of hiS es-
• I hine,'11 ta AIDS PreVentlon
~ ~lfk:allY fOr Latino
-.V men. Becauw ot his -osl·
., and concern. GMHC was able to
at IDier sex Information to manv
IIIMClrecls of patrons llf "The Love
IIDaf". Mr. RIOs tOOk a stand
aalnst AIDS Whk:h s«va
OS
an
ftOll'll>le to us all. Our SVfflllCllhv Is
extended to his famllv and friends.
/ /- ~ 9 / .........,. l'r9sldenl
Tlmdlllv J. ........ e.t. Dlri
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NO
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Ta
..Tellln
--.,.
was invariably the best policy. In his 52 years,
it consistently,
told it to the police, the politicos, the honchos of the
homophile movement, the press, everyone who ever had
authority over him, his own family, his friends, and his
lovers. As a boy in the Chicago Junior School, Craig immediately stepped forward when the principal demanded to
know if the rumor that had reached him was true that
"boys were insertin g their penises into other boys'
mouths"; yes it was true, Craig·said, he had himself participated often, and what was wrong with it anyway?
Craig Rodwell moved to New York in the summer of
'58, at age 18. Among the first things he did was to go to
the office of the New York Mattachine Society, the fledgling gay political organization, and try to join up. Told that
he would have to wait until he was 21, he volunteered to
help out in the office and before long was editing the
newsle tter-and denouncing Mattachine's lack of activism
and visibility, its frightened reliance on "expert " opinion,
'its refusal to denounce unequivocally the consensus psychiatric view that homosexuality was an illness.
Advised to adopt a pseudonym to avoid FBI investigation-as did almost all members of Mattachine (and those
in the lesbian organization, Daughters of Bilitis) Craig
angrily dimissed the suggestion as "parano ia." He further
scandalized the many conservatives in Mattachine by organizing a half dozen other brave souls to picket the draft
board on
Street, in protest against its policy of
releasing ·
on
·
· n to employers.
Craig's
day in 1961 at
Riis Park, the
""*r with gays. A
local ordinance banned "suggestive Ntbing suits, but the
police enforced it only against gay men. Some made a
camp production out of covering their bikinis with towels
when needing to go on the boardwalk where the cops were
stat~oned. But Craig scorned camp indirection jn favor of
straight-out protest. He marched past the cops without a
towel over his bikini, and when they confronted him,
angrily berated them for antigay harassment. The cops
dragged him into their station, knocked him around, and
then hauled him off' in handcuffs for amignm ent. He
landed in the Brooklyn House of Detention, where he was
beaten up again for "insolence."
41'¥1/61-51~
DIED: Sherry Root, AlJJS educato r
from c o m ~ ~ 27, of complic ations .from
AIDS '
surrounclN 11Y famllV, anci
Plen'9 Khourv an111115ru parlnll'. Jan. 22 m Austu:1, T ex. Root
·
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mad
rel1'lll11l*'ed bv 1115 friends. eon- safe-sex presentations at
hi~
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. ~e experience hardly made Craig contrite. Nobody, he
10s1sted, had the right to put him down. And he said as
much to t~e conservative. young actuary -a man named
H~ey M11lc-wh~ ,was.~JS lover at the time. Harvey was
~omfied over Craig s Riis Parle arrest, fearful it might get
m the papers and so.meh~JN implicate him. Harvey eventually cut out for California, where Craig's tutelage in selfassertion stood him in good stead.
Craig went on to become a participant in the first efforts
at organizing ~onal and national homophile alliances; to
s~rt Mattac~me Young Adults (he got in a running battle
~Ith !he. Village Voice-w hich he eventually won-o ver
its obJect1ons to using the words "homop hile" or "homosexual" ·
ada Cmig
wteSt control of
New Git ........ .iee ' to join th
small bud of mililanu who ......IMl'ia of demonstrations
in the mid '60s in front of the ftentagen, the Civil Service
Commission, the State Department, and the White House
in protest against the exclusion of homos exual~ m federal employment and the armed forces; to create the Annual
Reminder, a yearly demonstration in front of Independence Hall in Philadelphia that, from 1965 to !69, served to
remind the country "that a group of Americans still didn't
have their basic rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of
happiness"; to open, in 1967, the world's first bookstore
devoted solely to gay and lesbian titles-t he Oscar Wilde
Memorial Bookshop.
When the Stonewall riots erupted in the summer of
1969, Craig immediately realize d-as many did not-th at
a historic turning point had been reached. He dashed to a
nearby phone booth on the first night of the riots to notify
the dailies that "a major news story was breaking." He gQt
to sleep that first night at 6 a.m., and was up again within a
few hours to write and distribute a flyer (GET THE MAFIA
AND THE COPS OUT OF GA y BARS) analyzing the
event
and announcing a set of demands for the future.
In losing Craig Rodwell to cancer this week, we have lost
a pioneer of the gay and lesbian liberation struggle. But he
has left us an abiding legacy: "Be proud of who you are,
and always tell the truth."
-MART IN DUBER MAN
Richard Glen Rose
Man:h22, 1951-Au g.2, 1993
Richard Glen Rose passed away
,. i;v,,·
peacefu lly in
San Francisc o
due to a prolonged illness
while encin:led
by his longtime
compa nion,
family
and
friends.
Richard armed in the Bay
Area in 1975
ll ...
·"'''"'"'
•
from Tearcana,
Texas, and received a degree in
psychology from San Francisco Stale,
where he believed that living in a 'WOdd
without becomin g aware of the world
was like wanderin g about in a great
library without reading the boob, and
that the association of people were
bound togdher by oaths and obligatioos
into esoteric fraternit ies that have
descended from the earliest of times
and bear witne&B to natural ioclinatioos
to perpetuale doctrines which led to the
goodness of all mankind
Richard is rememb ered for his
beautiful smile, deep compassion. and
his warm loving care for others. He
treated his pets as his children ,
strangers as friends, and friends as
family. Richard was loved by BO many
1
people that it's diffJCUlt to mentioo each
and every person by name of thoae he
touched so deeply, but we know they
will all share in his memory. He will
always be in our hearts to help see the
goodness in OUJ8eM:S and provide us
the strength to make the world a bet·
ter place for everyone.
We are grateful to the fine staff at
UCSF Moffit Haipital b' all their help
and support, especially to Or. Dan
Swangar d for his. . . whicbRicbard
hoped in his paasing would enrich
Dan's medical punuitsa nd llincere bedside manner. We deeply appn,ciate the
loving support from Marcy, Peggy,
Kendel and the rm of the Saint Francis Hotel staff who meant ao much to
Richard.
Richard is surmed by his father and
mother, Glen and Joan Rose; hia
brothera, Joaeph. Gregory, Tunothy ,
Michael and Gerald; his dop, Demi •
and Cballeoger; his cat, Pumpkin ; •
longtime compani on of 11 years and
domestic partner, Skip Hamer, and
many laving &ieods who will ma biai
dearly. Memorial services were held
August 6. A reception will be held
August 14 at 3 p.m. Infi>rmation 1D1i1Y be
obtained by calling (415) 864-8130. Y
Mark A. Rosenfeld, 54, Exporter .
nd Former Hostage ofIraq, Diea
Jackson National Life Insur·
ance Co. must pay death benefits to the widow of a Santa Fe
Episcopal priest who died of
complications from AIDS,
the state supreme court ruled
Feb.28.
The priest, ~ - Jon
• · died ess
e
monfafter purchasing the
policy, and the firm's officials
alleged that the couple concealed Receconi's condition from
them. But Receconi's wife testified that her husband's condition was not discovered until an
autopsy was performed on his
sas
than
body. /f9~
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PROVIDENCE - When 32-year-old JW~~'-'-.tillllj
died of AIDS Jan. 1, he left behind his family in Bamng- tionship and to Ryan's intentions are located.
According to a national gay rights advocacy organizaton, his companion in San Francisco and a life insurance
policy with no beneficiary. His legacy, however, may tion, court battles between families and the surviving
turn out to be more substantial than $115,000 in benefits. partner of a gay couple are not new. The Lambda Legal
Ryan's parents and lover are fighting over the bequest in Defense and Education Fund, which brings such test
a suit that is as much about family identity and gay cases, has -documented similar legal battles.
rights as it is about money.
"Even when people do list a person on the form, famMichael C. Hall, Ryan's companion for 51h years, and ilies contest them, saying it's a product of undue influJOIIN RllNWAilR
Sept. 3, 1993, age 32
Patrick W. and Lois Ryan sued the Prudential Insurance ence. Usually the lover loses," said Evan Wolfson, a staff
8 roadwa.v stage
Co. within two weeks of each other for the benefits, each attorney.
m,mager. Credits inclaiming priority. According to the policy, in the absence
But Lambda has tracked a measured shift in atticlude Rad io City's
of a specific designee, the order of beneficiaries is tudes, it says. A handful of cities are broadening their
Th e Nigh t of 100
pouse, children, parents. The Ryans have argued their idea of "family" to include domestic partner arrangeStars and Forever
son had no spouse or children; Hall contends, in part, he ments. Ithaca, N.Y., has just implemented a registration
J>/ciid.
is due as the surviving spouse.
program for domestic partners. Madison, Wis., Seattle,
The suits have been combined and Prudential has al- New York City and Berkeley, Santa Cruz and I,,os Angelowed the dispute to be settled in US District Court. And Jes, Calif., have extended some combination of health inwhen Judge Ernest C. Torres awards the money, he may surance, sick or bereavement leave to the city workers
simultaneously enlarge the definition of family to include domestic partners. More significant, noted Wolfson, was
same-sex partners.
a 1989 New York Supreme Court decision in a rent conWithout guidance from federal Jaw, federal judges .trol dispute that defined gay partners as a family.
"The real problem is the law doesn't protect the realimust con ider statutes and case law from the state in
which they sit. In the past, Rhode Island courts have ty of the way people live. Although we're seeing a steady
reflected the population's conservative views on family movement toward a quasi-marital legal status, it doesn't
RICIARD RllTIEJSTEIN
matters; sodomy, for example is still a crime. But in this come near the protection of marriage," he said.
lpril 8, 1993, age 3!i
tancl-up comedian
That Rhode Island same-sex couples might attain a
instance, Rhode Island case law will offer Torres little
and director of HBO
direction, said Stephen A. Fanning, president of the legal status paralleling marriage is a goal far beyond the
Pictur s Publicity,
Rhode Island Bar Association.
immediate reach of the Rhode Island Alliance for Lesbiwhere his credits inThe court will write on a legal tabula rasa and gay an and Gay Civil Rights. Over seven years, the group has
clude The J()l,ephine
rights organizations, which have fought for the recogni- lobbied for legislation that would protect gays from disBaker Sto111
.
crimination in housing, credit, access to public places and
tion of domestic partners, are awaiting the word.
The Ryans and their attorney, Alden C. Harrington Iemployment practices. It missed passage in the 1990 ses3d, declined to be interviewed, citing privacy. In fact, the sion by one vote.
Ryans petitioned to sue under fictitious names, but
"We are stretched to the ,max to get a basic civil
Torres denied the request. They attempted to challenge rights bill passed. In order for us to go forward on other
that decision but withdrew the appeal when Torres re- issues, this has to take 'place," said Michael Thompson,
fu ed to mask their identities while the motion was pend- vice president of the alliance.
ing.
Others view the dynamics of the suit less politically. \
But Hall, 35, is vocal about his motives for pressing Rhode Island Project Aids, a support agancy serving 300
RICHARD RORKE
the issue. In a recent telephone interview, he talked AIDS patients, has helped families unravel the tangle of
July 3, 1993, age 40
about his grief and anger. "It's an unwillingness to sur- emotions wound around the disease and the accompanyActor and set design
press the rage and accept the homophobia. The Ryans\ ing stigma.
er who won several
were antagonistic about our whole relationship, even
"AIDS does a lot of things to families that no other
L.A. Drama Critics
terminal disease does. It puts a lot of issues at the top of
though it was a sanctified union to us," Hall said.
Circle awards for
He dese1ibed his relationship with Ryan as a mar- the pile that have been deeply buried," said Anne Marie
1
hi performances
1iage like others: sparked by "love at first sight," formal- 1 Silvia, director of Project AIDS. Generally, in families
and designs.
ized in a private ceremony, weighted by property in com- where the homosexuality is not accepted or acknowl, mon.
edged, AIDS can force a parent's shame and embarrass'We had a de facto marriage, even though we aren't ment to the surface, she said.
accorded the same benefits as a heterosexual marriage,
"That is implied in that the parents didn't want their
nor are we extended the opportunity to marry," Hall real names used in the suit. And typically there is a desaid.
sire to blame someone. When AIDS is involved, the part1
He characterized Mark Ryan's death on a family visit ner gets that blame," she added.
in Rhode Island as an emotional wrench that provoked
Project AIDS case workers encourage clients to put
lRIEL RUBSTEIN
him to angrily throw out some of Mark's things, includ- their intentions regarding possessions, benefits and powJuly 19, 1993, age 41
ing a list of last requests that he said made clear Hall er of attorney in writing, but AIDS most frequently
Singer with the
was to receive the life insurance benefits. Hall said he strikes the young, unaccustomed to preparing for death.
Opera Company of
did not believe the informal will ";as important at the The legal lapses precipitate conflicts between families
Boston, the Houston
time because Ryan had told him he was the beneficiary. and partners over visiting rights, health care and inheriGrand Opera, and
"I know what he wanted. Our relationship was very tance. Decisions usually left up to spouses are up for
the Portland Opera.
important to Mark. I think he would be upset that his grabs.
~~t 1:, parents are doing this," Hall said.
"AIDS victims frequently are afraid to put down
~:· :'~"'tv~,
An attorney, Hall is representing himself in this case. same-sex beneficiaries if their insurance is through their
rton it~~~evi,,°',li',t He had filed for a change of venue, but Torres ruled employer, because they are fearful of losing their jobs,"
111tan. Martha G': against his motion. Hall appealed to the First Circuit Silvia said. Wolfson agreed if nothing else, the case unCourt in Boston, and the request is pending. Hall hopes derscores the need for partners to do everything they
=u~::r41_:ii:,,r. to move the proceedings to San Francisco, where he and can to orotect each other legally in the event of death.
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Ryan lived and where he says the witnesses to their rela1
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Micha el Rice,
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r former manag er
of WGBH, at 47
Michael Rice of Truro, a
former manager of WGBH,
died Wednesday at his home of
AIDS related complicatio ns. He
was 47.
Born in Madison, Minn., he
was a 1963 graduate of Harvard
College where he was a Merit
Scholar, and then went to
Queen's College in Oxford, Engle,nd, as a Rhodes Scholar from
1963 to 1965.
Between 1966 and 1978, he
held the positions of radio manager, program manager, and
general manager of the public
broadcastin g station. During
his tenure, WGBH became one
of the leading producers of programming distributed on the
Public Broadcastin g Service
and on outlets abroad.
Some of those programs in·
elude PBS staples such as
''Nova", "The Advocates ",
"Evening at Pops", "Master·
piece Theatre", and for chil·
dren, "Zoom" and "Rebop". To
Boston viewers, Mr. Rice introduced "The Ten O"Clock News,"
WGBH's locally-bro adcast
nightly news program.
In 1978, he took over direction of the Aspen Institute's
Program on Communica tions
and Society, where he was responsible for studies, conferences, books, and other projects
addressing the uses and effects
of the mass media in a modern
democratic society. He stepped
down as program director earlier this year.
He was the author of "Public
Television - The Issues of Purpose and Governance ", and
"Reporting U.S.-Europe an Relations: Four Nations, Four
Newspapers ."
Mr. Rice was also a member
of the board of the Erick Hawkins Dance Company in New
York City.
He is survived by his longtime friend, Robert Donovan of
Truro; his parents, Edward W.
and Trudy of Sun City, Ariz.;
three brothers, William of Mobridge, S.D., Edward J. of West
Palm Beach, Fla., and Howard
Of Colorado Springs, Colo.; and
l'l!_ne nieces and nephews.
• · A memorial service will be
l
·
h e Id f or M r. R ice a t a ater
date.
His cremated remains will
scattered at sea.
Ftu\eral arrangemen ts are
·the ·McHoul Funeral Home,
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Clovis Ru,Pn, 46;
Design(I{} Fashions
For Young Women
By BRUCE LAMBERT
Clovis Ruffin, an award-winning
fasblon ~esigner,_ died on Tuesday at
the Cabnm Hospice in Manhaltan. He
was 46 years old and lived in Manhat-tan.
He dfod of complications from AIDS
'
a family spokesman said.
Mr. Ruffin had his first major show
of a collection in 1972, and the next
he
year _ became the youngest designer
lo wm a Coty award. Early in his
oareer, he went against the prevailing
(rend of ~ants for women by designing
inexpensive, clmgy, T-shirt-like dresses that became his trademark. He also
designed a one-shoulder dress and terry-cloth pajamas, and bold stripes
Were a favorite motif in his clothing.
He helped focus the fashion industry's attention on young women who
had grown up in blue jeans and were
looking for youthful, carefree, affordable clothes as they began entering the
\l!Ork fo~ce. He was also among the
first designers extensively employing
black models, whose flair for the runway he praised.
Costumes for Dance Company
By the mid-1970's he was designing
pants and loose, flowing dresses. In the
1980's, he produced lounge wear and
also slinky, taffeta evening dresses
with price tags in the hundreds of dollars. In 1990, he designed costumes for
the Alvin Ailey dance company and in
recent years branched out to interior
design.
After his initial success, his small
companr, Ruffinwear, became part of
lhe Kreisler group until it closed in
1979. Later he worked under licensing '
arrangements for Boutique Industries
and Keyloun.
Born in Clovis, N.M., for which he
was named, Mr. Ruffin grew up in
Egypt and Europe and returned to the
tJn.ited States as a teen-ager. He studied at the High School of Art and Design in Manhattan, Columbia University and the Sorbonne in Paris.
Surviving is his mother Harriet
Wright Ruffin of Manhattan.·
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5:30 PM. SOlnt Mktm'a EllllcOllal
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Paul] . Rothman} D.O.
1949 -1993
Physician
Colleague
Friend
In Covi119 memory...
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nee
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of ManhatAIDS on
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Born: Feb. 17, 1953 - Florida
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111
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thousandmnds thatblow;lamth edia- at IBM. Amertcan consultantand
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was a n1111-nt
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ripeninggrain;l amtheautumos 'sgen6
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mentcontrlbUllonS to ore
GMHC or
ing's hush, I am the swift, uplifting rush bUI
Love-W• Deliver 111 DcMl't1
of quiet birds in circled flight. I am the God's ore _..clolltd. oava was
nam1t
soft star that shines at night. Do not bklsseclwllhoSbO r1>mlndondon
and Intuitive
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stand at my 0 · - · - and cry·, I am not lnslghttul gr'ltolly mlllltd. SPlrff.
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c¥~t9~ 28 "Rick" Richard Byron Redewill
nburg,
PHDJP A. ft!M'ENBURG
Pbllip Rt
Promoted AIDS education
Aug. 9, 1952 - April 14, 1993
Philip Andrew Rittenburg, who
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spent almost all of his young adult
Richard died Wednesday evemng, April 4, at Kaiser French Campus. Rick
years raising awareness of· AIDS
and promoting education about it, owned and operated the "infamous" Lone Star Saloon Cocktails Bar and
'
died yesterday in New England th PIT
·
e
Deaconness Hospital of complicaRick was truly one of a kind! He fought hard his battle with AIDS, as he
tions from AIDS. He was 28 and
was a man of tremendous strength of will.
lived in Reading.
Mr. Rittenburg was born in B~ Rick will be remembered by many as a kind and generous friend and
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ton. He graduated from Reading
Memorial High School, where, in as a protective and lovmg soul.
1981, he waa captain of the track With a wonderfully wild and enlightened staff at both bars, and an array
team and a member of the indoor of intelligent creative crazy and lovable friends, Rick was truly blessed
~relayrdteam that set a Class c with love and adorati~n. He was generous and a major contributor to the
s H ~ ~ an avid sailor and a AIDS Emergency Fund. He touched many hearts here in S.F., across the
member of the Quannapowitt Yacht1country and around the world.
He is survived . by. bis lover' Mike Weber·' bis mother' Nadine of
Club in Wakefield. .
• When he was diagnosed as having the AIDS virus Mr. Rittenburg Georgetown, CA; his sisters Barbra and Judy from Sacramento; all of whom
dedicated himself~ education about were at his bedside to watch him go into peace, a place away from pain. Sufthe disease. He became a m~mber of fer no more, my love. I love you, Bubba.
·
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the board of directors of AIDS Ac- 111 all love you, R 1ck . Th' p 1
~
1s anet won•t b e the same without you. To--1-'
vve
tion of Andover and served on its
and Bob Cato.
education subcommittee. He also you Steve Stafford
,worked to educate secondary school Rick was buried with a graveside service in Georgetown, CA, on April 20.
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students in the Greater Lawrence
and Boston areas.
Mr. Rittenburg also worked with
Planned Parenthood's "Heart to
•Heart" program, a one-week seminar that includes AIDS education
that is presented to students at middle schools and high scho ols
throughout the state.
He was also involved with the Interfaith AIDS Project in Reading,
AIDS Action of Boston, and "Last
Tuesdays," a monthly dinner
program at the Jesuit Urban Center
l7
in Boston.
Mr. Rittenburg leaves his parents, Robert and Carolyn J. (Powers) of Reading; a brother, Peter T.
of Medford; two sisters, Ann M., of
Medford, and Claire S. of Brighton;
and bis grandfather, William Rittenburg, of Sharon.
Thomas c
Robi119011
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(1958-1993)
Tom, as his friends called him, has left this eanh
in peace on June I, 1993.
Tom was an aaive member of both the Boston,
MA and Portland, ME communities.
Born in Maine in 1956, Tom came to the Boston
area in the 1970's. He began a successful career in the
hospitality industry at the Napoleon Club in Boston as
one of their most popular banenders. Tom's roots,
however, were always in Maine, and he returned to
Ponland to open "Blackstones," which quickly became one of the city's most popular bars, and
is still in operation.
He is survived by his partner, Jim Bowden, who resides in Winslow, ME.
Tom's friendship was one oflife's greatest gifts. His friends will miss him, but as be would
want, we celebrate his wit, compassion and contributions to everyone and everything be touched.
Philip
Francis
Ruggiero,
of
Washington, D.C., died on SIDlday, October 18, 1992, at the George Washington
University Hospital of complications associaled with AIDS, according · to his
friend Nicholas Cimato of D.C. He was
35 years old.
Ruggiero was raised in Manhasset,
N.Y., and attended Penn State University,
where he studied nursing. He moved to
the the D.C. area 18 months ago to participate in clinical trials for liver disease
at the National Institutes of Health (NIH)
. in Bethesda, Md., according to Cimato.
Ruggiero enjoyed spending time in
Dupont Circle where he frequently ate his
lunch. His interests included bicycle
riding, watching classic movies, reading, · ~ - - - - - - ~
and conversing with friends. Ruggiero
also volunteered at the Whiunan-Walker Kevin Hogan, all of D.C.; the WhiunanFood Bank.
Walker staff; and the staff of the 8th floor
In addition to Cimato, Ruggiero is sur- clinic at Nlll.
vived by his parents, Philip and Virginia
A memorial service will be held TuesRuggiero of Manhasset; three brothers, day, Nov. IO, at the Friends Meeting
Thomas of Stamford, Conn.; Ronald of House, 2111 Florida Ave., NW, at 7 p.m.
Boston, Mass.; and Andrew of Glen A reception at 4000 17th SL, NW, will
Head, N.Y.; i;ister Lisa of Manhasset; follow the service.
many friends, including James Getty;
Donations in Ruggiero's name may be
Calvin Nokes; Will Foster; James made to the alcoholism services program
Franklin; David Haggard; Paula Fenner; at the Whitman-Walker Clinic, 1407 S
Carla U!iona; Colleen O'Donnel; and St., NW, Washington, DC 20009.
Michael Reilly
'Rosemary is for
Remembrance"
~-S- 9<.3
- WiUiam Shakespeare
For those of us who have lost a loved
o ne , memories are a comfort and a way
to ho ld on.
~
For those of us who are angry at the
indifference that surrounds us , a
reminder to care can be a powerful
call to action .
And for us all , this remembering is
critical if we are to have a future .
To help us remember those we have
loved and lost, and to sou~d a clarion
call to action , Northern Virginia AIDS
M inis try offers the rosemary pin .
•
Rosemary has lo ng bee n a symbol
o f re membrance, used at year's e nd
to ho no r its passi ng and gathered into
wreathes as symbo ls of mo urn ing.
f
The rosemary pin beautifully captures
the image of rosemary on an enameled
cloisonne pin, along with its simple yet
eloquent message: "remember".
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«::I: Bill Robinson, 45,
41, Photo-
Robert Rafsky, 41,
Pion~ngDe signer Media Coordinator
()fFashionsforAlen For AIDS Protesters
,~...,J-1\1
AIDS an Auoust 31, 1994. He
sotelv mlSled bv his 1ov1ng com-
POlllon. Mlchael S'-t, flQl"ell1s
Paul and Esther Reed. brother
ThorlQ. sister Jean Reed Roberts
and his manv friends. A memorial
service WIN be ClmOWlCled. Done,.
lions mov be sent to AmFAR.
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i\WYs. time companion
( ~fm Jl!INM,tr ~~:
physemo.
By ERIC PACE
Bill Robinson, an Innovative men's
fashion designer who was known..fbr
his pioneering soft-shouldered ~ckets
Long
and dear friend of Anoelo Jomes
Bos,co. Beloved son of the late
Agnes and WIiiiam B. Riordan of
Worcester. MA. cherished brother
Of Goel de MOIO of Hamden. CT.
Norv Joyce Schermerhorn ot
oreen
Clinton. CT. the late N
McSherrv ot Southboro. MA. Olld
John P. Riordan of Worcester,
MA Also survived by many nieces
and nephews. Moss of Resurrec·
IIOn w ill be celebrated at Our Lady
of Peace Church. 237 E. 62 St. NYC
on Sotunloy. October 22 01 3PM.
Conlrlbutions may be mode to
Fire Island Pines Core Center, Fire
Island Pines. NY 11782-0999.
By MARVINE HOWE
Robert Rafsky, a public relations
executive and advocate for people with
AIDS who confronted Bill Clinton during the presidential campaign, died
Saturday at New York University Medical Center. He was 47 and lived in
Brooklyn.
a
The cause of death was AIDS, s_ id
his former wife, Barbara Krolik.
Mr. Rafsky was a senior vice presldent of Howard J . Rubenstein & Associates, the New York City public relations firm, from 1982 to 1989. He left to
devote full time to helping Act Up, the
AIDS coalition to Unleash Power, become the nation's most prominent
r-------------AIDS protest group.
with slim waists, arresting combinations of just-off colors, and zipperslgoIng up the fronts. of his vests, -died
yesterday at his home in Greenwich
Village. Besides his Manhattan:heme,
Mr. Robinson had a weekend hQJD«( in
Bucks County, Pa. He was 45.
He died after a long illness, ~id his
' ·,
companion, Leo Chiu. '
. Beginning with the fall of 198l, prments designed by Mr. Robinson were
manufactured and marketed by the
rtOUJSON-AnllrN ~
B.SC. IBkKhemJ. Andrew's fight Bill Robinson sportswear divisiop · of
with concer and HIV ended Thurs- Bidermann Industries, which is a
day, October 26. 1995 at 2:10 AM in
St. Paul's HosplfOI, Vancouver B.C. Paris-based fashion company.
But after Mr. Robinson became seriCanadQ, at 34 vrs. Of age, Andrew
fOUllht VOllanttv, SUPPOl'led by the
love of familv and friends. we ously ill two years ago, the operatJans
f=~
of the Bill Robinson division - white
he had the title of designer - tuQ'*S
This past September, though,'he was
feeling better and .returned to- his officestodesignalineca lledthe"Bestof
Bill Robinson" consisting of sweaters
and of woven and knit shirts for fall,
1
8:r. Robinson was born and r ~ in
Philadelphia and went Qll to graduate
from the Parsons School of Design,
where, in 1969, he received, three
wish to 1llallk cill of hlS coreolvers.
be foxed to
JIM REVELL
August 29, 1960 January 14, 1994
Sought Faster Drug App~val . opment Corporation.
His marriage ended in divorce in
As Act Up's media coordmator m
New York, he helped to focus attention1 1985.
Surviving are his daughter, of Brookon the AIDS epidemic. And as a memreatment actlon group, lyn; his parents, WIiiiam and Selma, of
ber of Act Up's t_
he was active m efforts to speed up Philadelphia, and a brother, Lawrence,
Federal approval of AIDS drugs, and of Livingston, N.J.
D
helped persuade drug manufacturers
CuiU I .n.OC
to reduce prices and improve dlstribu-
I tio1. member of Act Up since 1987, Mr.
awardsasthemostpromisinggreduat-
Ing fashion student at the
school.,. -,,
\ After Parsons, he worked for various
fashion designers and their (asfiion
companies: Anne Klein, Valentino for whom he worked in Rome -, .Stan
Herman, Leo Narducci and Gloria Van, -"
derbilt.
1am connected to the one
lben, in 1977, he joined Calvin1Clein
and worked as the chief designer Mr.
source of all light
Klein's menswear collection fdt IM!,VSo are my friends
~ral years. Later he moved to Y~'. St.
I feel their
Laurent. There he produced lie\\' depeaceful presence
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signs for men's clothing.
. !
and trust they feel mme. After the birth of the Bill RC)bliisim
division of Bldermann, Mr. Robinsen
won two CUtty Sark men's wear award
Lovlngly remembered by
\nominations in one year, 1987. , · .
Alana and Kenn
He is survived by his companion, Leo
he Boord
Yol'efrM11rN,L~lonf or Chiu, with whom he lived; his parents,
intevrvtlve Research mourns the Ann and Will Robinson of Wildwood,
=ri:~1: D ~ i O : N.J.; two sisters, Jane, of Naalehu,
Ragone, wno died on December 5• Hawaii, and Lynn DiMaio of. ,.u-nton
nu
of AIDS. Vincent deePlv touched Head, S.C.
·
manv 11ves thouOh his work os o
cHMMON Dh-Of Provincetown in Puerto
consultant RRIc
Psv ~ os~
1 o. arc 2a,
~ offldals. to cC::o·s
Brother of Thom~ Jamu.Ha>i
~o:":'5tne~~~~ land, N.Y. Also survivect by his good 1r end
~'Yr"~ ~e~a~1~h°.: ~'::~~,:;,~~~: 9:~f::.~
0 tune! ra1ser for research 1n AIDS
~1k,Tg~
l : e = = ~ = : ~ ~ s ~"Mo':."ci"::i 11~~~·d!c~7:.o1
~ r y: v,s~lng hpurs omm1ttec1. In lieu of
be remembered bv his monv
wers, donations ,n his memory may be
friends and the thousands of
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rie and his brother Poul. A meBoston ...c;;a,;a...a. on ADr11_7_J
held on the
moriol service wm be
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iid son of ~
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1995. In Monhot·
evenlnll of Jan 19, be obtained bv
ERah May Richards. Loving brother ot Rova!
ton. Deto11S can
Rlchan:le of Mesa, AZ.. Fona brother In 1- of ,
colllnll 212-929-4196. The address
I
of
Rafsky was arrested several times for
civil d!sobedience at d~monstra~lons..
Dunng a Democratic fund -raiser m
midtown Manhattan on March 26, Mr.
Mr
~afsky challenge~ _ ...Clinton to defme his AIDS pohc1es. What are you
d
going to do abo~t ~IDS? We're _ ying!"
Mr. Rafsky said m the televised exctaange
"Tha.t's why I' m running for President, to do something about it," Mr.
Clinton responded. Subsequently, Mr.
I Clinton solicited the help of leading
AIDS advocates to draft a specific
AIDS agenda that he said he would
carry out as president.
I Mr. .Kafsky recounted his struggle
with AIDS in an article on th~ Op-Ed
page of The New York Times m April.
"Th~re's not much to do except to k~p
fightmg the epld~mlc, and tho.s e wh?se
I actions or inactions prolong 1t, until J
' get too sick to fight," he wrote. "1'11 try
to die a good death, if I can figure out
what one Is."
At the time of his death, he was
Iwriting · an autobiography about his
work as an AIDS activist tentatively
titled, "A Letter to Sara," a reference
to his daughter.
Born in New York City, he graduated
from Harvard !n 1968. He worked for
the Pennsylvania Department o~ Communlty Affairs, then became director
of public affairs ·for the United States
Conference of Mayors in Washington
DC He returned to New York City as
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Richard • -a-ochon of Rumford, R.I., formerly of Boston,
retired management consultant for Victoria International
di d t home
Ltd 0 f Bo t
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s on,
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S~turday after a long battle
with AIDS. He was 31.
Born in Woonsocket, he received his bachelor of science de-,
gree from Bryant College in 1983;
During his studies, he served an
internship at Walt Disney World
Co., Lake Buena Vista, Fla.
He was employed as a management consultant for Victoria International Ltd. of Boston until retiring due to illness.
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He had also been emp1oye as
the superintendent of service at
the Great Wall Sheraton Hotel
and
in Beijing, China, Inn Aas pro•
f
mer1ca
ject manager or
Corp. of Braintree.
Mr. Rochon was the founder
and treasurer of MAPS Inc.
(Momentum for AIDS Priori·
ties), and he served as the
opening speaker at the AIDS International Conference in Am·
sterdam in July 1992.
He was a member of AIDS
Ac tion and ACT -UP o f Boston.
He is survived by his parents.
and Fernande (DaigArthur
nault) of Vero Beach, Fla.; two
brothers, the Rev. Robert A. 0
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D T and Ra
Provid
ymon
ence, ..-.,
RJ.; three sis
L. of Woonsocket.
ters, Jacqueline R. Field of Ran
dolph, Therese E. of Rumfo
RJ.. and Suzanne P. Copping
of Newburyport; and
nieces and nephews.
c.
Eric Arthur Roberts
Feb. 11, 1939-Feb. 19, 1993
Eric Roberts died of complicatio
arising from
AIDS on February 19, 1993, in
North Miami
Beach, FL, in the
loving and supportive presence
of his mother,
sister and brother.
Eric arrived in
San Francisco in
Peter.Ryan
(a.k.a. Marion Leonard
Ryan ID)
fun-loving escapades which included
high costumes on Halloween, and, in
more innocent days, widely attended
Sunday afternoon champagne socials at
Ritch Street. Eric loved people, and enjoyed making new friends. He had the
uncanny ability to walk into a room, or
into a bar, knowing no one, and within
a few sparkling minutes introduce
himself to everyone, introduce his new
friends to each tther, and create a party.
Eric made a difference in a very real
sense in countles lives. creating exci
ment, challenge, growth, joy and 1
wherever he found himself. He will
remembered with love. •
Gina Rae
AfterlivingwithHIVingoodhealth
,($)/,,:•,
· for 10 years,
-~'::.,{·':;···
. Peter Ryan sur· • rendered to a
; peaceful death,
. '" less than three
~ 2:00
Jim's gentt_e. loving and aeative spirit took 11911. After
·w.,·. months after his
first ever hospi- eight year struggle with ARC, AIDS and ultimately dementia an
,.. talization after blindness. Jim finally sipped his bonds to pass peacefuly in his sleep.
Offering cae a1d comfort were Jin's oonstart companions: Terry, his
.• ...~ acquiring the
May 24, 1993
"You Are Loved" -
am
Vinci, and the soul of Buddha. A selftaught high school "dropout" Peter
could teach MD's about retrovirology
and PhD engineers about electronic
design and computer programming. In
his last six years. he worked at Dr. Mike
McGrath's AIDS Immunobiology
Research Laboratory at UCSF, attempting to bring nearer the day when the
Plague is conquered. There his
mechanical and intellectual genius
became an invaluable asset to the everyday operation of the lab. In years past
he at times worked at ~ p Radio in
Vancouver, and at times lived in the
.Kaliflower commune in San Francisco.
tJe is also known as the author of
Graphicom, Wefax, and R1TY software
for the Radio Shack color computer.
Peter and I stood together on the
highest point in Baja in 1984. We reached the summit of Boundary Peak
(highest point in Nevada) two years ago,
when Peter's T-cell count was zero.
Together we walked many a trail, and
hunted down and soaked in many a
wilderness hot spring. May you find
more hot 5Prings, Peter, wherever you
may be. I'm sorry we couldn't make that
one last trip.
Mourning Peter's death are Susan
Pete, his lover of the last six years;
Elizabeth Pete, to whom he was
"daddy;'' Mike K., his companion for
many years; and the many others of us
whose lives he touched with his
gentleness and wisdom.
There will be a memorial gathering
for Peter in Point Reyes on Sunday, June
13. Call Laura Goldman (415) 824-7668
for details and directions. •
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Petrick Rotllennel, N.Y
Fatl'ler.
John Rothermel, MlnneaPOlls.;
Aunt Marie Mitre Westminster,
CA~ Uncle Rlehard Petrick. FL;
cl0$4! frlendS. Adrienne CleAntonlo,
Barrv MarVolls. Geoff Rogers; oth·
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to AJDS c1rc1e of car11111. Cabrini
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Main St., Watertown. on
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c!ra~rgr· ~ o1 ~~:
Angeles and served as the ~ ~ ~ : = ~ r p ~ N ~
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JAMES A. RARIDAN '
May 11, 1961-April 21, 1993
:e.::-:.:?.,~E l!:~~:,::
manager at various restaurants, in
eluding the 524 Union Club, the Mint,
the PS Restaurant on Polk Street, and
Sutler's Mill. He accomplished th
assignments with verve, classi
panache, and a keen eye for excellenc
in service and the comfort of his guests.
But Eric's real work was in healing.
Eric studied psychology al San Fran
cisco State and expanded his studies t
include consideration of evolvin
theories about the mind and its crea
tions. Very widely read in psycholo
and new age 5Pirituality, Eric saw in th
blending of these bodies of thought
powerful tool for helping others to
achieve full and constructive self ex
pression. He lived his beliefs. With gentie but unrelenting demands that all he
met expand their intellectual and em
tional horizons, his fundamental con
cern, and an expression of his love fo
others. was the growth and well bein
of those around him. Perhaps th
greatest flowe~ of Eric's work on thi
level was the esablishment, in the mid'70s, of The L)".)n House in Pacific
Heights in which a succession of his
friends lived and were challenged to expand their world views to include wider
love for their fellow humans and ever
greater levels of self expression.
Eric balanced these pursuits with
June 6, 1943
lover of nine years, aid his best friend, Mak.
We wish to offer special lh#lks to Jim's mother EV8¥1, ai8t« Cheryl.
daughter Alice, son Joshua, and former wife Fran, whose presence
kindness and conoem brought a smile to his taoe n brigltened his
~ays. His feline faniliars, Muffin and Sable. were also a souroe of great
Pf.
Al of us ranember the little guy wth the big heart, generous naue.
C81J!llic wt and bad poos. He was a great cook, student, leacher, stlst,
de&igner, photocJ'apll« and raconteur. He regaled us wlh fond msnories
of his halcyon days - New York, Coop« Union...his exhibls, coooerts n
finai
gallery cner.
Nwft/8 outspoken, opinionated and al times stubborn, lrrascible #Id
~~ ~ thrived under pressure a,d adverlity. He railed against
m;usticle, Republican evil, medical maleasance, red tape and the system
that perpelualed •.
Jim controlled eve,y asped of his health care, bringing new drug
thenlples to the allaftion of his physicians and setting precederts for the
medical en of other AIDS paienls.
A celebralion of Jm's lfa, and all those he touched, wil be held on
Saturday, June 26, at 1:00pm, al Dolo1'88 Street Baptist Church, 208
'Dolores Slf88I (•151h), San Fnn:iaco.
In memoriam: If you wish, lowers for the service or a donation to the
S.F. AIDS Foundation, P.A.W.S., Project Open Hand,
or the
AIDS
Marcus Isamu Rob'
mson
Emeigency Fund.
June 6, 1958-Feb.4, 1993
Alain Rene Ruest
Jan. 23, 1959-May 18, 1993
Marcus I. Robinson, 34, former~
My dear friend Alain died of AIDS
related heart
failure at C'.edarsSinai in Los
Angele,s. Born in
QxwaJJ, Quiada,
the unvelievably
handsome
Frenchman was
an avid pleasureseeker who left
home at an early
age to fmd the
riches life had in
store._ Alain began his career as a model,
gracmg the cover of a variety of
magazines includingThe.Amoaite and
also posing for Tom Bianchi. Lat~ he
traveled from Toronto to New York,
Provincetown and Paris, eventually settling in West Hollywood. There Alain
dabb~ed in the pum world, starring in
Classified Action, PCH.2, and Falcon's
Mission Accomplished.
In L.A. he met Jon Caron, a fellow
Canadian artist who became his lover
for six years until he passed away from
AIDS in '91. Alain's llllhes together with
Jon's, will be returned to Canada by
Alain's family for the funeral.
.~
·s kindness, sense of humor, optun~ roc~-hard body and smoking
sensuality will be sorely missed. I newer
thought I'd ever meet a perfect human
being but I did, and our friendship is
something I'll never forget. May you go
with love, Alain. •
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\ ~rea resident,
.. .ed peacefully
home in West
an Nuys from
AIDS.
Throughout his
illness, Marcus
received love
·:\ and
support
•» from family and
friends. He died
surrounded and
held by James
urtright,
over of eight years;
mother, Nobuko; sister Juneko Junie11e;
favorite nurse Tony Anderson and
beloved dog Sophie to the accompaniment of Pachelbel's Canon, Marc's
favorite classical piece. Survivors include sister and brother-in-law Paki and
Thomas Mowry, father, W'dliam, and
close friends Eric Grufman and John
Kelly. Marcus's gifted intellect allowed
for a distinguished banking career. By
age 21, Marcus was an experienced
superviaor in loan accounting and at the
unprecedented age of r, made Vice
President of Loan Services for
Columbus-Marin Saving& and later for
Olympic National of Loa .AJ1&1'les.
Throughout life, Marcus enjoyed
travdiDg. old movies and laveii animals.
Fond of creating with his hands, he was
skilled at classic car restoration,
gardening, home remodeling and
woodworking. His magndism, humor
and vivid storytelling will be painfully
missed. A memorial will be held 11
a.m., ~ February r, at theF"ll'llt
UnitarianOwn:h, 1187Fnmklin,SF.1n
lieu of flowers. coptnbutiolls may be
made to any AIDS orpnization. T
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Joseph Michael Reed
William J. Richards
William J. "Jim" Richards of Charloue
died of complications of AIDS at his home
on April 1, 1993. He was 55. Jim, a Concord,
NC native, was a graduate of Davidson College, attended Yale Divinity school and University of North Carolina Law School. He
was a volunteer and board member of
Metrolina AIDS Proje.cL, the Regional HlV/
AIDS Consortium , the Regional AIDS Interfaith Network and the Charles Dickens HeriLage Foundation.
His memorial service was held April 3,
1993 at Myers Park Baptist Church with the
Reverend Henry T. Finch and the Reverend
Debbie Warren officiating.
Jim's unselfish dedication Lo the fight
against AIDS will be continued through the
generous bequest he made LO local ASOs and
through the example he set for those who
knew him.
1953-1993
"And let our best be for your friend: '
Not quite 40, Joe
left his space on
earth to be met
by his brother on
his final journey,
if to shine with the
brightest of stars
and to his show
of shows.
Joe's mother,
Doris, and twin
sister, Carole,
with
along
brother-in-l aw Joe were with him and
let him know that it was alright to leave
Joe is sadly missed by all of his
friends. Among those he loved and gave
so much are Chriss,~ Noriko, Frank,
james,J.B. and Anita, Bonnie and Steve.
We love him, he had the kindest of
spirits, and was so wise. His dry humor
IO,-m
and wit brouptllim
of ll'flqwltl rNY ...,..t-Millla--
Afler
--c)lnllldlr
U.S.
iJIIIII U, and
~)le
left many -ends there. When he came
to San Francisco, he knew he was
home.
Special ~ to Maitri for makingj
Joe's last m~~tlls'F comfortable , Continuum and Ellen for firing his determination to be "famoUS:' the Tom Waddell Clinic, and Theresa Black for be,
ing a friend and ll!Ore.
His art was his life and will be his
. legend He lives on through it.
Contributio ns in Joe's name may be
made to the .AII:s Emergency Fund,
1550 California St., #7, SF 94109 and/or
Continuum , for which he says thank
>
.J!fJ
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you.
No memorial service will be held, acCOl!diac to Joe's wishes. •
James D. Ryder
Richard Roginski
Lonnie Max Rabara
1949-1993
Nov. 9, 1945-Jan.28, 1993
On March 23, 1993, Richard died at
his
;1- home in
lover's arms. He
was a native of
Detroit and lifelong Tigers fan .
He earned his
master's degree
in library science
at the University
_of Mi c h igan.
-·-, Afte r se ve ral
years with the
I Oiicago Public
'
Library, Richard moved to San Francisco, which was his home for the past
IS years. For IJ!OSt of that time he was
employed at UCSF, where he
developed many lasting friendships .
Sports, literature, art, music. film and
photograph y were among Richard's interests, and he approached them with
all his passion.
Made up of a series of illuminatio ns
and eclipses, .
Lonnie was a
spirit of life who :
played ronstantly
with the curiosities of those he
met.
His rare imagination kept us
all aware of how
life can sometimes be more
than what we
see, sometimes not exactly as we hear,
and above all, adventurou s.
Lonnie was a master of argument. He
found ways to challenge you or piss you
off with his stubbornne ss and bluntness. His determinati on to win was
often exhausting. But he never failed to
make you think.
He requested that a formal dinne r
party, five<ourse with fine wine, be
thrown for his friends. On February 27,
his request was granted and 16 of his
friends and family gathered to share an
unforgettab le time.
Lonnie was held by his best friend,
Bobby, and his sisters Deborah and
Michelle, as he continued his journey.
His seven year battle with AIDS was
over, his pain was no more. He is our
brother, our friend who loved us unconditionally. We miss his laughter and his
stories, but his life will continue to live
in our hearts forever.
His sisters wish to thank the East Bay
AIDS Clinic, VNA, Pat Dwelley, and
S isters Mary, Pat and K.C. of Providence House for their support. We
• also embrace those friends who did not
leave afte r he became ill, you are a
I raJ'ity. _.-
Quin Roberts
March 28, 1964-March 27, 1993
birthday, Qu '
James "Jimm"D. Ryder Jr., ofGreenfield Co. in Greenfield and Springfield for many On the eve of his 29thasse d a fter a
p
passed away Apil 1 from complicatiom of years. He wu an avid gardener, who espebri ef st ruggle
wi t h AIDS-reAIDS. He was 31. He will be remembered cially loved irises.
HeissurvivedbybispamtsofGreenfield
lated pneumonia •
for bis devotion to family and friends, and
H e joins his
naJure to all who need
bis caring md giving
b e loved R ick ,
support. He was a staunch supporter of bis
among others.
community.
Qu in grew up
in the Los AnJinun was Ion and raised in Gttmfiek l. Robert Hutchinsoo, of Greenfield.
geles area whe re
HewasemolovedbvtheFriendlvlceCmun
his fa m ily a nd
numerous friends
reside. After atJune 6, 1955-April 16, 19()3
tending the Otis Scnool of Art and
.Design and the Art Center in Pasadena,
Steve passed from this world Friday, April he worked for a number of years at La
I
16, 19<J3. He leaves behind his friend Made Paloma Studios fabricating art.
kind friends. A turn ing point for Qui nn was
and his many other devoted and
and sobe r in 1991. He
Among the many memories and gifts he becoming clean
moved to San Francisco that November
left us, the greatest one was his love of life for and soon established his own studio.
life's sake. the sheer joy of being alive.
Q164/Serio us Steel, fabricating furWe thank God for his being a part of our niture and frames for a variety of clients.
lives and the time he spent with us. Steve, we One of the highlights of Quin's career
was a collaboratio n with photograph er
will miss you and love you always.
Jim Wigler in presenting "Artists You
Age 39:
~ ri . Know" at the Looe Star Saloon last fall
,n ~r::iEP t.~~~f
1
Actor. On
or.
Quin leaves behind many friends inof Bernetha Cummin9f! and the late Acie
October 10. 1994. Beloved brother.
grandson. uncle and friend. Repos~1ciu°i~.c~i~ eluding those in AA, the Rainbow
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ing Donohue Funeral Home, 293
1
~r::if'1e ':c~i~~1 ! 1~~:'nt,~i ~~c~+ • Motorcycle Club, his beloved dogs and
COSlle Avenue. Westburv. L.I. todov 7-lOPM. Moss of Christion
~~: p=:_Y8t;':,~~~'; ';'~~=•i2;' :~~~ especially Jack, who was there for him
10AM Saint
Burial Wednesdov,
through the end.
Boston, MA.
Bri01d's R.C. Church. Westbury.
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Stephen Allen Robards
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He is survived by his son Dylan, of
West Virginia; his mother. Rita; his
brothe r, Doug; his siste rs. Denise and
Doree n; all of Michigan, and his partner, James Carlson. He is also survived
by nieces and nephews, his Cafe Flore
conti~gent, friends across the country,
a lovmg family of in-laws, and the 28
teams of major league baseball. His
twin brother, Robert died five months
ago.
A me morial service for Richard and
Robert is planned for Saturday, May I.
Please call James at 5501277 for details.
Donations to Project Open Hand, 2720
17th St, SF 94110 or the AIDS charity
of your choice are preferred
We'll miss him always. •
· Ed Reidy, Jr.
Dec. 30, 1950-Marth 4, 1993
Ed, a long time resident of San Fran,
Cisco, died at a
Shanti hospice
on March 4, 1993.
He was wellknown in this
city he l<Md All
of us who loved
him will miss
running into
him. He always
seemed to be out
and about exuding his own
special energy.
Ed was opinionated , loyal, friendly,
giving and loving to those who were
given the gift to know him.
A long time member of Alcoholics
Anonymou s, he was grateful to die
sober.
Father Tom Hayes. who attended to
his spiritual needs the last two weeks
of his life, commented on the r.:t that
he had accepted that his death wa coming soon. He was sere ne in this
knowlede and welcomed with a great
deal of gratitude the last rites and consolations of his religious traditioo,jb ld
the twelve steps of AlcoboHcs Anoaymous.
Ed was buried in Boatou, Maalachusetts next to bis grandpareil ts.
Ed has left us, but has not vanished
from our lives. •
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Jam esR oy
Enrique de la osa
Oct. 1, 1961-June 3, 1993
With a squeei,e to his partner Michael
Alel181lder" hand.anda final struggle,
s
Eorique ended
his difflClllt eight
month course
with AIDS. He
was well support·
ed by Michael,
friends, family,
his mother and'
by the docto
nurses, and oth
providers who
cared for him
He had the OJ>-:
portunity to say good-bye to many and
expressed his acceptance of death and
his desire that everyone carry on and
. enjoy life to its fullest. We ~ the ex- '
ample of how~ em~raced h~ to fo~:
as we learn to bve without his phys
presence .
Enrique was known to most people
James Roy of Everett died quietly Oct.
12, with his family and friends surroun d-
• inghisb ed.1bem emoria lservice washel d
Sunday , Oct. 17.
Born in Fitchbu rg, Jim lived most ofhis
life in and around Boston, except for brief
periods spent in Montre al and on the West
Coast.
Hislege ndaryfr ugality athome (OK,he
was cheap) allowed him to save money top
indulge his passion ; travelin g the world.
Heview edhisla yofffro mWang labsafe w
Y~ ago positively; no ~ongerwoul~ work
get 1D the way of vacation . At the time of
his death, he was in the process of convinc ing Phil to accomp any him on yet another
cross-country car trip; there was a halfl
ed .
"...:... .
"th
.
p ann trio to ruw;-.ntina W1 Rene m the
works; and he fully expecte d Barry to·finalty
agree to accomp any him on a trip to China.
He took marvelo us photogr aphs during his
escapad es, allowin g those of us left behind to
see the world, too.
Jim was also known for his creative cooking ability. He has an ever growing collecti on
ofpotsa ndpans andkitc hengad gets,an ilwas
constan tly concoct ing recipes to try out on his
friends. Most (not all!) were su~fu l.
His rather unique turn of phrase contributed to the vocabul ary of all his friends. We'll
think of him often as his words continually
pop up in our conversations.
Always one to disagree for the sake of
arguing, he was the most exasper ating person. He was dearly loved, and will be greatly
missed ~9 9 3
JUEil RITZER
•
r
Jaae 26, 1994, qt 58
Car l M. Rus so
through his work at La Raza Graphics
Center in the Mission. He served as
Gallery Manager/Education Coordinator and shared his aesthetic sense of
cultural knowledge to the artists and
Carl M Russo died of AIDS-related
visitors who used the center. His pride
in his Mexican and "American" culture complic ations al his home on Jan. 11,
and his desire to lead people to greater 1992. He was 38 years old.
cultural understanding led to his ~
Carl was born in New Haven, CT, and
. tbe tertulia program at La graduated from
West Haven High School
P r. onal manager
and casting director
responsible for the
original casting of
ployed by the Mass. Eye and Ear Infumary1 the ABC soap opera
Worked at Mass. Eye and Ear Infirm ary
in 1971, and from the Univeristy of Connecticut in 1975.
He was formerly employ ed at Jordan
Marsh where he directed the Visual Merchandis ing Departmenl in the downlo wn
Boston store. Most recenlly he was em-
in•
his singing with the ro
Hispano de San Francisco. He enjoyed
learning songs from Aztec, Mayan,
Spanish, and Mexican traditions.
His background for these interests
came from his education in lntema·
tional Relations and Comparative
Political Systems. He was educated at
the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de
Mexico (U.N.A.M.) and the Sorbonne.
After graduating from the Sorbonne
and travelling to the then-U.S.S.R., he
·1
·
taught at U.N.A.M. unti movmg tO the
United States in 1989.
Enrique was the life of the party.
dancing, joking, and laughing with
whomever could keep up with him. He
wasalinguistandwouldsurprisepei:r
pie with his knowledge of langu~
and his quick wit. His love of cookmg
included a desire that everything be
cookedauthenticallyandtoperfection.
Hishomewasvitallyimportanttohim
and he put effort into his altars and
candles until the end. The quantity of
his life was abort but the quality was
unparalleled. '
terests -
'
where he was Facilitie s Planner.
Lovin .
Carl was an avid collecto r and restorer of
antique automobiles. He was an active member of the Lincoln Contine ntal Owners Club
and Road Race Lincoln Regis1.er.
He leaves his longtim e compan ion, Rich-/
ard Kestler, and many loving friends.
A memori al gatherin g was held al th
Delio Russo Funeral Home in Medfor d o
Tuesday , Jan. 14.
Martin Robinson, 49, Organizer
/ Of Demonstrations for
Gay Rights
By BRUCE LAMBERT 3-/'7'-t"'-:>-:l
7 pc.,,
, /
cowrote Gho ·t
Hm,ter, Jeepers, and
Rcw,1 Be Wild.
,to
Verl Edward Rodman
Muth 25, 1956-April 15, 1994
Verl came into this world on March
25, 1956, and paged from it on April 15,
1994, at 11 p.m.
Verllefthisbelovedmother,Sbirley
Rodman of New Smyma Beach
Florida, and his beloved sisters, eon'.
Ma~tin Robinson, an organiz er for and the AIDS Coalition to
Unleash
gay-righ ts ca~ses for 27 years who was Power, or Act Up.
k!}OWn for his provocat1~e protests ,
He helped develop " zaps," inventive
died on Thursda y at home tn Brooklyn. and confron tational protests
, such as
He was. 49 years old.. .
i~filtrating_
someone else's event,
.He died_ of comphcat1ons of AIDS, bmg the microphone and upstagingrabg the lllancd)aws,LauraRodmanandKaren
friends said.
proceed ings
Vi
receded . death b
~r. Robi_nson was present at a cata1wasp
Mayor Jo.ho v. Lindsay was interm
lytic event m the gay-righ ts movement, rupted at a ceremo ny marking
the
•
when the police raided the Stonewall a Metropolitan Museum of
.
.
Greenwic~ Village bar patroniz ed by anniver sary, in an effort Art's 100th Pbillip&
to prod him Verl I ~ Glide
gay men,
1969.
into stronge r support for gay rights Methodist Cbun:h aad calledUmted
it bis
. Sue~ raids were common, but for the legislation.
home and the people who attended, his
first lime the custom ers resisted and
Such tactics often caused resent- fam!ly. He was much loved by the peo-fought back. Afterwa rd, a rally in Sherm
AcelebrationofEnriqueslifewill be idan Sq~are drew 2,000 sympat hizers. ment but also got attentio n and some- ~le_ the church. 'W_e remember him
times won access. Pressur e on Dick smmgas a vol~eer m the Celebrati
beldonS unday,J une:lOa t2p.m.at La Mr. Robinso~, who ~ad
on
been active in Cavett persuad ed him to give' Mr. Rob- Office answerin
g the telephone.
938 Valencia the Mattach me Society, the main or- ·
hics ""''.~·ormatio
Razas ~
n call ganizati on for homose xuals until then, mson th e p Iat form of
Vert has left many rr· ds, hi h ·
treet. .-or more 1au
an appeara nce on
was a lead speaker .
ien w c m·
national television. Sometim es Mr. elude Cleo B. Fast, Etta Page, Phyllis
~3219. T
Robmson resorted to more convention- eanJackson. Terry Wheeler, Leon
- tO-Nld\llA.OnJanuarv
BaeANewE raofAc tivlsm
al m~th<><!s, like testifyin
- - -~
.
' et,mpcnon Of
The Stonewa ll riot became a symbol Pres1de nua1 Commis sion g before the ch~~.L~ daJ~n.V ickyLee ,]anice
on AIDS in M1rik.itan1 and his pastor, Reverend
~=~~~~
that galvani zed many gay men and 1987.
Cecil Williams.
~°'~~~~:
women and started a new era of activMr. Robinson was born in Brooklyn If you would like to re'?emberlho~or
rem. NY. Interments,. Anlhonv"s
ism. At the forefront, Mr. Robinson co· and attende d New York Univers
ity. He erl, please.send ,donations to: Glade
founded the Gay Activist AUiance and worked as a union carpent
cartc>ullh Funeral Home. inc.
the Lavend er Hill Mob. He was also ing in resident ial remodel er specializ- Summer Children s Program, 330 Ellis
ing.
reet, San Francisco, CA 94102.
Roule59,S utfem.NY.
active in the Gay Liberation Front and
Surviving are two sisters
/
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·' /
was~ founding membe r of the Gay and Staten Island and Dorothy Esther of PerVerl'srequest,hisremainswillbe
' of Minne- cremated and placed in a rose garden
Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation apolis.
in Colma. California. A small service
I:n:~
.
Laur!
m
r--
=erv~\::~:'~
~
will be held in Reverend Williams" office with a ~UJ> ef friends.
·.J2 Fa!)iscuss the Right To Die
' 'If you're going to help with
a suicid~, yo~ have to prepare. Yo_u 11 Jhmk you can just
go on with bfe, but emotionally and philosophically it's a
very hard aftermath:'
So speaks Pierre Ludington, a San Francisco Health
C<;>mmissioner and person
with AIDS, in a recent Bay
Area ~eporter interview.
L~dmgton is among a
growm~ number of activists
bo~. ga~ and straight, wh~
are commg out of the closet"
to .talk about personal euthanasia _
experiences. Ludingto": admits. to having assisted
t~o of his AIDS-stricken
friends commit suicide.
. Sever~ months ago, Ludmgton said he came perilously close ~o killing himself. He
.
"dn't
prove. _But as he came closer
t<_> settmg a date for his suicide, he got better.
"It was very hard to decide
wh«:n to do it;· he said. "My
family wanted to be· around
when it happened:'
As a "PWA and member of
the He~lock Society, a eutha~as1a advocacy group,
Ludmgton will speak next
w~e~ at the nation's first-ever
sUicide workshops. A private
workshop is scheduled for
June. 16 in Santa Rosa, and a
pubJic workshop is scheduled
from 7 to 9 p.m., Thursday,
June 17, at the San Francisco
Unitarian Church on the corner of Franklin and Geary
streets.
At the
.I
"People wi11 eel good t»
cause they'll have the chance
to talk about their choices
and options;· ~d Humphries.
Ludington said that he decided to speak out about his
impending suicide because
the issue has remained u""
discussed for too long.
Right to Die
(Continued from page 20}
cide. Now his is waiti ng until
he gets sick befor e puttin g his
plan into effect, and havin g as
much fun with life now as he
can.
"I think that a nice syrin ge
full of air woul d be the easiest way to go, don't you
think ?" Kubo vec said. "But I
migh t chang e my mind . I
don't like guns and besid es,
shoot ing yours elf often doesn 't
work. So if I don't go with the
syring e, I'll proba bly opt for
potas sium cyanide."
An empt y syrin ge into a ,
blood vein cause s an air embolism , produ cing heart failur e
withi n minu tes. Hum phrie s
said this is a bizar re meth od of
suicid e, but is an almos t certain meth od of succe ss if at
least 40 ccs of air reach the
heart .
On the other hand, Lyon,
Marti n, and Ludin gton said
they would all prefe r a drug
overd ose. Hum phrie s said that
a drug overd ose is the most
popu lar meth od of dying , but
added that many peopl e think
of creati ve ways to die. One
man, he said, let one of his pet
rattle snake s bite him on the
hand until he had a heart attack.
Ludin gton, unlik e the others interv iewed for his story,
hasn' t yet comp leted his will.
"I wake up every morn ing
and think I'll finish my will today, and it doesn 't get done; ·
he said. "It's a very hard thing
R. A. Radley, 43, Diea;
National AIDS Leader
(
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R. A. Radley, a national figure lo the
fight against AIDS, died on Frida y at
Cabrini Hospice in Manhattan. He wu
43 and lived in Manhattan.
1 0 'r.n!i
The cause was related to AIDS, i/M]iiJllfllW' 1 wllh
friends. Ofter a brief s~~
which he had for eight and a half years, AJDS. whlcn cut short a full and
Greg
the hospice said.
loving Ille. Partner ofano the
01 Minnie
the
Mr. Radley, known as Russ, was De- Campora. sonRubenstein. Brother /
A.
late Robert
ein.
founding executive director of the
of Gregorv RubenstPast Born Chi·
.
.
.
Presldenl
AIDS in cago,
sign Industries Foundation forfull-time 01 theMay 1, 1954.
New England Region 01
him the first
1986. That made
Young Juelaea. Vateelldorian Of
High SdlOal
grant-maker to AIDS services and pre- Frornlngham South scnq1ar. Gro1912. National Merit
vention efforts.
duateel Yale College, 1975, where
.
he inspired the Pierson Tang
He also was a founding board mem- Team ano the Pierson summer
of Gay Men's Health Crisis·
ber
' his
Funders Concerned About AIDS, which ~cs i.=: tl~. Secflon 1
represents foundation and business ex- ness Admtntstra ~=~
H.I.V.
ecutives supporting AIDS and Fund; ~=P ~:~ ,,~bChannels
the New Republic ano
projects; New York Clty AIDS
magazines. anCI went on to lead
at
Photograpbers and Friends United the way In eledranlcs.publishing nst AIDS, and the New York City 1so Communication BRS/Sau01
Again
Ciers. the New England Journal
Medicine, CMP Publications. anCI
Gay Men 's Chorus ·.
.
Whitestown, N.Y., Mr. Mee11ca1 Economics Data. DevaA native of
New York Times. conof new
Radley graduated from the State Uni tee of theconsumer commemusic.
summate
.
ntator,
burgh. In brilliant po11t1ca1
vers1ty of New York in Platts
. Bart wa1 a
so many from all
the early 1970's he was an assist ant to ane1 herbalist suprememany wavs.
~veel lrlenel toIn so
.
.
,
his life
the college s president and designed a Parts 01al service will be Sunday,
Memori
Memorial
marketing and public affairs program July J, 3 PM. at Plaza Ave. 191st
Amsterdam
worki
for S.U.N.Y. branches. Before ation n Chai>el. 630Interment will be Tuesh St.I, NYC.
at the design industries found
operated a management consulting 1:;1J iu't~: ie'tbe sent 10 the
IL. Donations mav
firm.
National Fund, Trees for
~ Jewish'2 East 69th
hi
·
Mr. Ra diey is survived by s par- lsrae~PWA coa1111ons,. NYC 10021,
1
Of New YD111.
or ta 17
ents, Stanley and Geraldine Radley of sowes, th s,. NYC 10011.
Sarasota, Fla., and a brother, Roger o
EID-Da n. The Board. stOlf
P~illpsburg, M~nt.
and youth of the Hetrlck·Martln
80, on July
tnstlMe moum the passing Of our
aJe Marvin
.
tonner colleallue, Don Reid. whOl
Mother ot Linda
Rosenberg. David Rosenberg ood
served lesbian, gay and lllsexua
Rosenberg,
youth With tremendous warmth.
Tovatt Leostep-mother of Ellen Daniel, Sam,
be
rv. Grandmother ofNewspaper re- • • • sln!nlllh. and cadnll.- He will
deeply missed. S-/ 9~
' · Aaron ond Rochel. Democraflc
porter, editor, Reform r Of MayDistrict Leader, membeBoord on
Darrell YateaRid .
or Lindsay's Advlsorv
Lead Poisoning, volunteer ot The
Writer, 45 J,,;J./~9
American Red Cross. and, ot the
time of her death. ot Roosevelt
todo? 'T
Darrell Yates Rist, a writer and coHospital. She was an extraordlno•
rily devoted and concerned parent founder of the Gay and Lesbian
and the unobasheel #1 Ian of her ance Against Defamation, died
grondcnlldren, She was f1ercelv Thursday in St. Luke's-Roosevelt
//
f h C R
loyal to her friends, and eauallv
.JO n . UB8e
d
uncompromising towards thase
pital Center. He was 45 and lived
,"
·ctor P. Ra•vrnn n
wrong.
whom she fell were service Manhattan.
L../- d)-- 9u
ViI
"/-/- "b, Playwri1ht, 31
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•
love her and miss her.
We
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His companion, Rohen M. Cataldo,
Veteram Affain Official, 46
1~:!Yci:.~r61i8s,~1~ii ot
John c. Rus ell, a playwright I!?.\)h!h~am Avenue. interment said he died from an AIDS-related illred In Off Broad- Amsterd
Victor P. Raymond, an Assistant whose works appea York City, died ~!':ne~~:-VFtu~ir:.:Weu~lef~~: ness.
Mr. Rist championed the cause of
Department of Vet- way theaters In New
Secretary of the
New York Hospital In ers contributions may be made
erans Affairs, died on Frida y at his on Friday InHe was 31 and lived In in her name to the Roosevelt gay rights in his writings. HisA moat
Hospital Aios Volunteer Program. recent book was "Hear tlands : Gay
home in Washington. He was 46. s of Manhattan.
Manhattan.
The cause was complication
Man's Odyssey Across America" (DutThe cau e wa AIDS, his parents
ton, 1992). He also wrote numerous
AIDS, said his companion, Robert C.
said.
. magazine ~nd newspaper articles that
Rea.
Mr. Ru sell belonged to the Circle
appeared In publications including The
Mr. Raymond was named an asrights Project and
Nation and Harper's.
t secre tary for policy and plan- Repertory's Playw of the Clrcl Repsistan
an
Mr. Rist was also a spokesman for the
ning last year after serving as an wa the chairm was al o a member
board . He
alliance, which was known by Its acroanalyst with the Department of ertory New Dramatists and was the
nym, GLAAD.
Health and Human Services and as of ther of half a dozen plays, om of
Mr. Rist, who was born in Ironton,
an aide with the Senate Veterans Af- autho were staged at BACA Down·
Ohio, Is survived by his companion; his
fairs Committee. He was also a mem- whlch In Brooklyn and at the Joseph
parents, Louis and Geraldine Rist, of
ber of the White House Task Force on town Public Th at r and the DownPapp
Shelby, N.C.; and a sister, Jerolyn
al Health Care.
Nation
Art Company, both In Green·
· Szuch, of Rochester. Minn.
He served as a captain in the Air town VIiiage. He was a graduate of
Force and was a combat pilot in . wlch
e and received a mas•
to acknowledge the
'Vietnam. He was a gradu ate of the Oberlin Colleg fine arts from Brown The Living Center would like
ed a ter's degr e In
University of Missouri and receiv
h Rieb.
passing of Josia
doctorate in operations research University.
He Is survived by his parents,
Johns Hopkins University.
from
of
Russell ot HuntingJosiah is held in our memories as one of the founders
-In addition to Mr. Rea, of Washing- Charles and Ruth
ond is survived by his ton, L.I.
ton, Mr. Raym
the Living Center. His ideas and visions helped in
father, Clark Raymond, of Oklahoma
tv
ry, of DenCity, and a brother, Grego
shaping the Center. Josiah remained active in a varic
have the same respe ct for human being s?"
Thos e senti ment s are
share d by Jay Kubovec, a 39year-o ld forme r Unive rsity of
Nebr aska footb all star and
mana ger of a Bay Area Kuppenh eime r's cloth ing store.
Kubo vec, howe ver, said he
doesn 't want a pet becau se it
would proba bly outliv e him.
He has Hunt ingto n's Disea se.
"I was suppo sed to be gone
last summ er, and I'm still
here and doing reaso nably
well," he said in a B.A.R. intervie w. "But I've defin itely
deter mine d that suicid e is going to be my prefe rred
meth od of dying."
The fear of long, prolonge d suffe ring is the most
impo rtant factor in his decision to comm it suicid e, he
said, but there are also other
reaso ns.
"I have absol utely no desire to waste every thing I've
mater ially accum ulated to pay
for the medic al bills of one
last illnes s;' Kubo vec said. "I
don't want to suffer , and I
love my friend s too much to
make them suffe r while taking care of me."
Kubo vec said he finish ed
his will last week, and cement ed his suicid e plans at
the same time. A close friend
has agree d to assist his sui-
ver.
r
"18; ;~
cp~,:e~
of projects, including speaking to young people in his
6 /'V-9< -;
capacity as an Educator with HIV.
(
I/Jr. Nicholas A. Rango, 49, Dies;
Program
Buift New ~?!~ !
4-JDS
By BRUCE LAMBER T
rights, th~
Dr. Nicholas A. Rango, who built those dealing with human
courts, schools, mental health, youths,
New York State's AIDS Institute into
welfare recipithe nation's largest state AIDS pro- parolees, addicts and
while struggling with the illness ents.
RUT~OR D-H. John. •
37 gram
He initiated AIDS medical care
fbf SaO Marobr, NY, on MaV 4 oi himself, died on Wednesday at home. standards, a wider definition of AIDS
He was 49 and Jived in Manhattan.
complk:ollons of AIDS. survived
The cause was AIDS , the State entitling more patients to receive care,
his parents, NJ; a brother, TIKIby MlddletOWn.Howard and Louise
of
special nursing homes and residences,
mas of Long Branch. ~J; a Sister, Health Departme nt said
to
publicly acknowledged his
Dr.
~'L::=i: lllnessRangohis homosexuality. He ran higher reimbursementstreatencourage
~llePl was a deacon
AIDS padoctors and clinics to
and
dlelown. NJ. Jom
tients, housing aid, prison health proand vOU1h adviSOI' of the Ftrst the agency from his sickbed during
.
Presbvtenon <Oki Whalers> medical relapses. In June he said, grams, home care, tuberculos is proOUCh 1n SOIi Harbor and Cl'I East
the uninsured, re1n 1993 he "When you're aware the clock is tick- grams, care for
Encl HosPiCe vo1un1eer.
,
co-tounded the East End AIDS ,
search to prevent accidental exposures
attention."
we11ness Protect with his comPG- mg, It focuses your
Through his work in New York he like needle sticks and special training
n1on Matthew Grallv, who atso
.
.
.
Under·
survives. His compassion. prov10- exerted nationa I mnuence on AIDs' IS· for doctors and nurses.
slondinll and loving natlft
Dr. Rango advocated giving clean
ec1 C11 excmple to the wt1o1e com- sues. He also organized his counter·
He
munttv.wor1twtll be sorely1nmissed. parts f rom other states mto a coa 1· ·
1t1on needles to drug users to curb infection,
on. lieu of
w;1111ve
but his
a measure resisted by many state and
to
s
~ ~ 1~1 E ~ 1 lobby for Federal money and policy local officials. He also expanded pre- _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ .,
AIDS Wellness Protect, Sag Har· changes.
ventive education, voluntary testing, so quickly as the epidemic, which by
Recruited in 1987
~
confidentiality protection, subsidized June 30 reached 61 ,082 cases with
.
.
Monday 2~ and 7-'J. Funeral 11
Dr. Rango was recruited to his post medications for 7,300 patients and a 42,567 dea ths.
AM. ruesc1av. MDV 9, Fnt Presin 1987 network of AIDS treatment centers in • Trained in gerontology and sociolobvterlCl'I cnurgi,j!"'°" st. SOIi as director of the AIDS Institute
gy, Dr. Rango was the director of the
as the epidemic worsened in New York, 23 hospitals across the state.
7.
Hcnor.
Nationally, he led the opposition to Village Nursing Home in Manhattan
ot New York which has the most AIDS cases in the
before joining the AIDS agency. In
25, 19M. He 1s ~ ~ country. His mission was to plan treat- mandator y testinR of health care workAIDS work he faced many of the sa me
lnll CllfflllCl1IOI, at 20 vecn Jase ment and prevention and to get servd li ed
terminal-care issues but in much
ROdrflluez. BeloYld son Of IV· ,
monc1 and Lucv Rldlello ot New ices e ver .
younger patients, he said.
During his tenure, the AIDS Institute
ot A111ert
HCIYerl. CT and brother
An Ohio Native
°":t~ quadrupled its budget to $120 million
::;:'°m !,~
of
had a IICIISiOl'i far coaklnl! and was and expanded into a wide array
Dr. Rango was born in Youngstown,
an CICXXlffllllilh diet. He Ol1lln programs .
found 1nner peace and lranQullttv
Ohio. He graduated from St. Louis UniDr. Rango broadened services to
with his extraan1tnary 1ove and
ver~ ty in Missouri and earned his
who were
a1111n1cklf1au ot nature espedaf!Y people other than gay men
medical degree at. Northwes tern Uni:::,:n -~1n: i;:: increasingly afflicted by AIDS, includversity. At Cook County Hospita l in
uals, women and babies.
~ ~ ~ ing heterosex
Chicago, he was president of the ResiMan'S Health 01s1S • 1GMHC1 or New programs were begun for teenn, a union
minorities prisoners and ad- ers and the barring of infected peo- dents and Interns Associatio
Goers Love We Det1vw.11111aca1ec1 agers
•
with more than 500 members.
di ts •
In New York Cltv.
C •
- D«IIU'IV Sbllllll:a. Died
ple from doing invasive medical proHe earned a doctorate in sociology at
Advocates for AIDS programs , even cedures.
'f2rrt of Crtof Nkk;'NY and Lake
Columbia and for nine years caught
the state's
Warth. FL. Wlte 01 the late while complaining about
f . d
In New York he worked with State health at Barnard College, where he
'd
Gearve Rase, M.D. Mother of shortcomlng s, cons1 e red hi m a nen
Jane Rase and Nancv oe1man
Health Commissioners David Axelrod
a health policy and medical
Once, when t~e and Mark Chassin and with the State developed
~ 1~~ behind the sct;nes.
ethics program for premedical stuAct Up d1Srupted a State Public
Jonathan Mattana. Great.grand- group
AIDS Advisory Council and its chair- dents.
~~,z:e~ ~~s~er O:, Health. Council meeting by blowing man, David Rogers. With Gov. Mario
Dr. Rango won awards for his work,
to
111e late Ntdde stoHer and Elmer deafening horns, Dr. Rango confided
M. Cuomo, they forged the administr a- published research in medical journals
1
a bystander that he was glad the pro- tion's AIDS programs and sought sup- and assisted on the federally sponsored
~~ ~a~?:"·~~~
beautiful person 10 au who kneW testers kept the pressure on.
National Hospice Study and the Hast"We are moving too slow" he said in port from the Legislature.
her. She was there tor au of us.
..
'
f
•
Getting money for the agency was a ing Center's proJect on Terminati on of
Her loving kindness will live In our
repeating a requent theme. We
hellrts torever. Darolhv Cl'ld 1989,
constant struggle, and Dr. Rango was Treatment and Care of the Dying.
Georlle Sl)eflt a IOllll and loving have done a lot but we have not done
he sa1'd quick to defend its semi-independent
His survivors include his mother,
·
vears. Thev had
llfe tor over 50and a IOvinll 1cm1- e nough ... Somet'1mes ace rb'
IC,
rlCh trlendsnlps
Arlobbying: "On the status within the Health Departme nt Doris, of Manhatta n; a brother, Ann
Iv, Mam. we appreciate everv· at a 1990 seminar on
thur, of Manhattan, and a sister,
failed
~!"'aie°1'n i:;e~: ::, ~~ Issue of AIDS, the New York Congres- He did not win every battle. HeCatho- Ursula Watkins of Warren, Ohio.
e be- in an attempt to require Roman
w111 a1wavs love vau. Funeral ser· sional delegation is somewher
7
P
A Mass will
:3 ~~v~~~ ~ tween stage three and four of a coma." lic-run AIDS nursing homes to give Wednesda y a t be held at 12:45St. .M. on
Franthe Church of
Dr. Rango assembled the state's preventive education on safe sex and cis xavier at 30 West 16th Street in
g~
Foun- first long-range plan on AIDS. It called the use of condoms. When the recession
mac1e to the Pedlatrlc AIDS
Manhattan.
for action by 18 agencies, including hit, AIDS funds and staffing did not rise
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Minnes ota man,·
famous for effort to
take male date to
prom, ·dies of AD>S
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MINNEAP OLIS (AP)-A man
who gained national attention 15
years ago when he took a male companion to a high school prom has
died of AIDS.
R!llld Ro died Dec. 31 at a
nneapolis hospital. He was 32.
Rohl captured the interest of media across the country when, as a 17year-old senior in Sioux Falls, S.D.,
he arrived at the Lincoln High School
prom with his date- a 20-year-old
man.
Rohl told reporters at the time that
he and his date were "just friends"
but he said the media attention was upsetting.
"I think it's rather sad that my date and I
have to get more publicity or more
acknowledg ement from the press than any
other couple," Rohl said in 1979. "I don't
think we're any more worthy of special
attention.Y es, maybe it's a milestone in gay
rights, but it's being made into more of a
freak show."
Rohl's mother, Isolde Rohl, said her son
liked to challenge the norm.
"He was a rebel in his own way," she said
last week. "He did what he. felt was right. It
wasn't that what he did-was wrong - just
not in little Sioux Falls. It was just such a
shock because I didn't know what he was
going to pull. I knew there was something
different about him, but I had no idea at that
time that he was gay."
Rohl had been living in Minneapolis,
where he was enrolled in pre-medicin e
courses at the Unhrersity of Minnesota. O
Walter F. Roberts,Jr. /-.i?-' ?'r
Walter Frederick Roberts, Jr., 42, of Provincetown, died peacefully at home on Saturday, from complicatio ns ofAIDS.
Born in Everett, M~achuse tts, Wally
grew up in Rockland and graduated from
Rockland High School in 1969. He worked
in Boston in the seventies designing displays
for retail stores, including the Harvard Coop,
Laura Ashley and Remick's of Quincy. For
five years he owned his own display business in Montpelier , Vermont, where he also
attended Goddard College for two years. He
moved to Provincetow n in 1990.
He is survived by his partner of 12 years,
Mark Doty. The son of the late Walter Roberts of Rockland, he is also survived by his
mother, Barbara Roberts of Rockland, and
by seven sisters and brothers: Paula J.
McClure, of Rockland; Susan J. Roberts of
Framingham ; Betty A. Roberts of Long Island, New York; Robin M. Adams (?f Mis-
souri Valley, Iowa; George A. Roberts of
Rockland; James R. Roberts of Medford,
and MarkRober tsofMiddle boto,aswel l as
by seven nieces and nephews. ~ the
last year of his life, Wally was surrounded
roommate
by loving friends, especially bis 1
Darren Otto, who helped to care for him
during his illness.
·wally was known for his gentle spirit, his
sweetness and humor in the face of difficulty, and his great love for animals, especially his companion dogs Arden an~ Beau,
and his Portia and Thisbe.
A memorial service to celebrate Wally's
life was held on Jan. 29 at the Unitarian
Universalist Church in Provincetown. Donations in his memory may be made to the
Animal Rescue League (P.O. Box 1265,
Brewster, 02631) or to the Provincetow n
AIDS Support Group.
Tom Ruud, SO, Dancer
)
Sears,
complica ·
An'!:i~1:}"!"J;apher
aity's Medill Schoof ol 1oumalism,
as a
catalog writer and in computer syst.ems. He was a
singer with the Chicago Symphony Chorus from
'79-'87 an~ perfo~ed in several ~ter grouvs.
He is SUl"Vl~ by his parents and two sisters. 'l'f
Tom Ruud, a dancer and choreographer with the San Francisco Ballet,
died on Monday at his home in San
Francisco. He was 50.
The cause was AIDS, said Pam Lord,
·a public-relations associate for the ballet company.
Mr. Ruud performed for 10 years
with William Christensen 's Ballet West
in Salt Lake City before joining the San
Francisco Ballet in 1975. He was made
a principal dancer by tbe San Francisco company In 1986. One of his most
popular roles was that of Drosselmeyer, the elderly uncle in "The Nut·Cracker." Six of Mr. Ruud's ballets are
in the company repertory, including
"Mobile," the subject of a short film,
"Balances, " which was released in
3!f.!l~
3 itff!efJ!
complications Jan. 16.
Born in Neenah, Wisc.,
Linda moved to Milwaukee in 1983 where
she worked for JK Art
,
Directions until 1987.
,, ,
,. •. ., She graduated from the U. ofWJSCon,
si~adison with a B.F.A. in Graphic
Arts m 1989, then returned to Milwaukee where she worked as an independent artist. Her success in graphic illus1981.
tration led her to Chicago in 1990,
Mr. Ruud was born in Pasadena,
~here she was represented by the deCalif., and raised in Afton, Wyo. He
sign firm of Munro-Goodman. Linda's
oim:-James R,ider, AIDS activist,
received his dance training at the Unipassi~n for art was lifelong; gifted and
38, otcomplica tions from AIDS
versity of Utah, where he earned bachcommitted, she was a true working
elor's and master's degrees. He perMay 24 in Gulfport, Miss. fuder was
!"115t who continued to toil and delight
the Naformed as a guest artist with
m her craft despite serious health seta board member of the South Mistional Ballet of Canada, Pacific North·
.bacb. ,,__ will remember her gensissippi AIDS Task Force. 9?'
west Ballet and the Oakland Ballet
tleness, innate kindnea and pat
among other companies.
- Of Sandwich, tormertv of Somerseruie of humor and flan. Linda died
Mr. Ruud is survived by a son, Chrisson of
Sf""'*8J Be1oved Loving
1994,
•
Raffin.
Jean P .
John and28,
peaoefully at home in ... company or '
topher, of San Francisco; his mother,
brother of Paul and Kriena Raflln of New
her loving partner Coffeen O'Neill and
Gladys Papworth; a brother, Jack, and
;{__~~· ~~i~3'§='..:' ~~lil~m~
a half-sister, April McMurdo, all of
brother Steven Reilly. Other survivors
Franklin and Lisa Raffin of West Hartford CT
Uncle of Robert Bergmann and Jonathan
and
Afton,c· a brother, Michael, of Salt
include her mother Vera and devoted
Raflln. Relatives and tr,ends are Invited to atLak
tend the Funeral Mass at 10 a.m. Mon. 0 ct.
friend Carol Maloney. A
e 1ty.
31 In Sacred Heart ChurctiJ. no Mt. Auburn
St. Watertown. Interment Mt. Auburn Cemememorial service was
tery Cambridge. Expressions of sympathy
~iJ?r.8'~~~1~: held by her friends from
ft--L
may be made In Steven's name to "Hospice ~
on o ay at age 46. Beloved son of
Foundation of Caoe Cod. 923 Rte. 6A, VarMa,y E. Rautenberg of South Plymouth and
WJSCOnsin and Chicago,
the late Arthur E. Riiuteriberg. Dear friend of
mouth~. MA 02675 or to AMFAR tmerie
33
~aab B. Forbes of Roslindale. Also surJanuary 17, 1956 - Ju!, 31, 1994
many
~~~nFl~N .:!~~r:~a{ &i\ l.
XF neYaJ~eral ~~ uncles and cousins. Alano r.. the New-'lbwn
on ~rda lf:'St. Mar =~~~~ ROCKWELL -Of Bristo'! RI and Cambridge,
, died Octobe in Oakland
Rainer
'F'Y P ~:
~rrd
!\,(A, Charles Bristed. 3r
ber 13, 1996 of AID
~
age 81
related illnesses.
~:==,=r~~"r}:r~u~
~~a:vi~~.H~'.J. Y
j~~~~ '=9°Jf
~ ria:,.~ ==nr~n °~f1r.t:
tol. Burial p r l - with &Jpubllc remembrance
celebration to btt ann need later. In lieu of
11o-. donations to Hospice Care of RI, 11
King Charles Dr., Portsmouth, RI 02871 .
9
M:~
~-· B u ~ y. Bu~I will
held on_F,J'!..Bou rne. Calli~ hours
the N l c k ~ ~ ~ ~ ; : . , n ~ : : M
MacArthrlalur Blvd. In Bourne. In lieu of flowers
=o•---~ntrl butions may be made tci
- .._ Ho!IPital Viroloav Cllolc
B rookline Ave., Boston. MA <12215,1 -~/
wli?t:
J8
flilRid%
Former Chicagoan
?
died May 1 or com
~ AIDS. Ridley moved to San
~ego in 1987. He is survived by
his mother, Margaret Ridley, family and friends, Pt_ivate services
_
were lield: ~
R
j
lcffe,y Scott
Larry W~ Rollins, 40, of Poqumon,
Robirison, 28, o(
Virginia, died at home on Monday,
Washi.-gton :
Man:h 21, 1994, of AIDS-related COQll>li· ,
D.C., died Frications, acconiing to bis co-worker and ·;
day, Feb~ 4,
friend. Peter Shaw of Wasl)ingtoo.
1994 at · he
Rollins was born ~ 2, 1953, in
Washington HosNewport News, Va., and earned a bachepital Center of
lor's degree from Christopher Newport
complications asCollege in Newport News in 1975.
sociated with
Rollins was a Peace Corps volunteer in
AIDS, acconling
Afghanistan from 1977 until 1978, teachto his friend, Kaing English at Kabul University to engithy Shea of Bethesda, Maryland.
neering students. In 1979, Rollins became
~obinson was born in Muskegon
a program evaluator for ACTION, a
Mich., OD OcL 16, 1965. After graduatin1
federal volunteer agency. From 1983
from Muskegon Senior High School ·
.
until 1984, he was a program evaluator
1983, he began a career in retail sales.
, .. , .
.#,:
for a high school on a Navaho reservation
From 1983 to 1988, Robinson work
Auoc1aiec1 Preta, iau
in Arizona. Afterwards, Rollins worked '
for Meijers Company in Muskegon. Afteli
for Support Services, Inc., a consulting Dack Rambo -l.., - .::JI· ti¥
moving in 1988 to D.C., he was a
firm, in D.C. from 1984 until 1987.
DackRambo ·
manager f<X" Something Different. From
Rollins then returned to the Peace
Actor, 52
1989 to 1991, he worked as an ~
Corps office based in D.C. He retired in
LOS ANGELES, March 22 (Reuters)
August 1993 due to illness. Rollins held
manager for American Greetings. And in
- Dack Rambo, who played Jack EwC
th Pea
fi
'ti
era1
ce orps Ing, the cousin or the villainous J. R. ' 1991, he became an assistant manager fe1 '
poS1 ODS or e
sev
Brookstone.
including, senior budget analyst for the Ewing, in the:; tong-running television
Pacific, the Mediterranean, and Central series "Dallas," died on Monday at the
"[Robinson's] creativity and love for
and Eastern Europe; an administrative Delano (Calif.) Regional Medical Cenhelping others was displayed throughout
was 52.
·
fficez · Mi
·
0
Jan
m cronesia and Romania; and ter. He Minot, a spokeswoman for the I, his retail career," wrote Shea.
Robinson loved shopping, music, and
e of hospital, said Mr. Rambo died shortly
senior budact
Rollins after being admitted. She would not say
plailning, budaet,
gardening. Most of all, he enjoyed spendwhy he was admitted or what {:aused
ing time with friends.
Peace Corps's his death.
also helped ICl up
In addition to Shea, Robinson is surMr. Rambo, a native or Delano, approgram i n ~
vived by his mother, Nonna L. Hollingspeared on "Dallas'' from 1985 to 1987.
adRURd "for ·
RoUlnS W8S'"
wonder- His twin brother, Dirk, also an actor,
worth Robinson of Muskegon; father,
ful sense of humor and his devotion to the died In a motorcycle accident In 1987. George T. Robinson of Howard City,
improvement of people's lives in the The brothers started in television on
Mich.; eight brothers and sisters; liis
developing world, in accordance with the CBS's "New Loretta Young Show,"
'Helping others which ran on CBS for two seasons in cocker spaniel, Lady; and many friends in
Peace Corps philosophy,
the early 1980's.
the Washington area.
Dack Rambo appeared In several
help themselves'," said Shaw.
His remains will be cremated and
Rollins was a Bette Davis and/ Love television series in the 1980's and 70's,
interred in Michigan.
Lucy fan. He was an avid reader and among them "Never Too Young.''
"The Guns or Will Sonnett'' and
A memorial service will be held Thurs"Sword or Justice," before switching to day, Feb. 17, at the MetropolilBll COBladmirer of classic films;
In addition to Shaw, Rollins · is sur- daytime television on the ABC soap munity Church of Washington, 474
vived by his parents, W. Ray and Barbara opera "All My Children" In 198.2.· In
Rollins of Poquoson; sister, Kim White 1991, Mr. Rambo quit his role as Grant Ridge Street, NW. People are encouraged
Harrison on the NBC soap opet'a "An- -U> bring words of remembrance, a funny
.
.
and brother-in-law, Jay White of Newport other World" and announced that he story.abQut Robinson, or a prayer to share
News; brother, Glenn, sister-in-law, Lisa, was H.I.V. positive.
during1he service.
and nephew, Jack, all of Forney, Texas;
.....
Contnbutions in Robinson's name may
and' brother, Mark, sister-in-law, Courtbe made to Food Jlnd Friends. PO Box
Sml;Mon of Poquoson.
ney, and
70601, Washingu>n.~DC 20024. Flowers
A memorial semce was held March 23 r,
may be brought to the service or sent in
in Poquoson. Rollins remains were JU!)' 10, 1967 - A~ust JO, 1994
advance to 4408 West Virginia Ave.,/
interred in Newport News. Contributions
A
Bethesda, MD 20814.
in Rollins' s name may be made to
J~HN .RODG~ 32, an artist who did carWhiunan-Walker Clinic, 1407 S SL, NW,
. toorush work and performance art, died Dec. 10
Washington, DC 20009; Food and •
from AIDS complications. He created "Art Boy," a
Friends, PO Box 70601, Washington,
psychotic kid image" seen on postcards and t-shirta
DC, 20024; or to Trinity United Methoaround the country, and "Egg Boy" a character Cor
the American Egg Board's television campaign, as
dist Church, 1294 Poquoson Ave., Powell as murals for Metro/Smart Bar. His perforquoson, VA 23662.
o.c:
HAROLD
GORDON REID
rue:ce,
Rfll'Mffl'III--TIIAIII. {Mlntzl.. bom r July 27..
4, orm~ . O'!''Lynn "ilnd B ockton
• 1
, PasNCI away Feb. 1 1ll95 In Orange CounWldc)W of Phil~Robinson. Be'ir.l"azzo, Jea~~e
. molher
f1;3·
rng,ttT'~d 1
'IIa~:
~c!Jl~aw=:;:.~~~h~Mr=t
lete Henry, MorPalazzo of NI-Psi- of . ria HYman & Samuel Mintz. Services were
held Thurs. Feb. 2 , 1995 at Pacific v i - Me-
=
-
Park;~~=~ Cfo"n~~~~
• gJYan to8flfe AIDS Hospice of your choice.
Harold passed away
very suddenly and
unexpectedly.
He will be missed by
his many friends and
co-workers.
mance art included works titled "'lbrch," "Home
Sick" and "Anti-Body," and were performed at
Bailiwick Repertory, Blue Rider Theatre and Randolph Street Galll!J'1:.. He is survived by his parenta
and two brothers. 'I "'I
r
MarlQn Ti-oy Bigw,
Acclaimed filmmaker succumbs to AIDS
)
;
30, passed
ROBERT
(ROBBIE) REID
away
y, une at Illinois Masonic Unit 371 with family and friends
at his side. David was born in Michigan
on June 6, 1964 to parents Ruth
May 13, 1954 - A~ust 17~ 1'94
McEachin and l6nn Riley. In the early
1980a, David moved to Chicago and was
employed at Marshall Fields. David lat, er was employed at Ann Sathers
Restaurant and at this time began his
studies at DePaul University, where he
excelled in English Literature. David
completed his B.A in 1993. David was
' an avid collector of friendships and
memories, not of material things. Many
things David eJ\ioyed included audio/vi/ sual presentations, special dinner parties, gardening, amateur photography
Will Always Be
and
with hia friend Cathy.
Remembered by
Dam-· .... member of a highly
emulhe
. club. ~?'
his lover D~d.
his mother, nine
brothers &"Sisters
and many friends.
His passion was travelling. He has
now made his greatest journey,
a trip to heaven.
James Raitt, 41,
Musical Director
James Raitt, the musical direttor
of the current productions of "Damn
Yankees" on Broadway and "Forever Plaid" Off Broadway, died on
· Monday at his home in Manhattan.
He was 41.
Toe cause was AIDS, saip Guy
Stroman, a friend.
Mr. Raitt was the musical director
and vocal arranger for "Forever
Plaid" and trained the casts of more
than 30 national and international
companies of the show. In addition, he
created the orchestrations and musical arrangements of the Off Broadway musical "Pageant" (1991). More
recently he did the orchestrations
and voc~l arrangements for "Elegies
for Angels, Punks and Raging
Queens," now playing in London.
He was also the dance arranger for
the Broadway production of "Meet
Me in St Louis" (1990); the musical
director of the 1986 revue "Stardust,"
and the musical director for solo performances by Gwen Verdon, Chita
Rivera, Ethel Merman and Donna
McKechnie.
Mr. Raitt, who grew up in Santa
Ana, Calif., received a music degree
from the University of Southern California in 1975. He taugh~ at_U.S.C.,
David A.V. Ryan
OnSunday,May 1,DavidArthurVamo s
Ryan departed this earth in peace.
He was a man of great courage in his
struggle against AIDS, having lived for
four years with his diagnosis.
He died as he wanted, in his own bed in
his own home in Cambridge, in the arms
·of his partnerofnine years, Lorenzo Parra,
and his brother Paul Ryan.
Up until January, David was a tireless
worker when he took a leave from his
duties as the Budget Manager with the
North Charles Mental Health Foundation
in Cambridge.
He received his B.A. in economics in
1986 from Oberlin College and his MBA
in 1992 from Boston University. He was
also a member of the Board of Trustees of
Oberlin College from 1986 to 1989. David
was born on April 9, 1964.
David was a man of wonderful courage,
a love{ of life, and a giver of warmth and
peace in all of his relations. He never
wavered in his positive attitude, his smile,
and be always sought the gentle way to
live.
David loved travel, photography, drawing, computers, science fiction, and camping in the mountains.
He leaves his parents Maureen and Fred
Lightall of Hazel Court, W.; Keo and
Ellen Ryan of. San FrancjsQo, Cati~ his
brother and sister-in-law., Paol R,YJll and
Michelle Deboer of alieap .; fi · ~ sister, niece and l)epbew,
a, &uu.
and Benjamin Crane. '1(
ID:· and
his grandparents Artbar aqic:J
femos
of Franklin Park, 11(.
James Raitt
New York University, the Eugene
O'Neill Institute and Sarah Lawrence
College.
He -is survived by three sisters,
Dorothy Lykes of Scottsdale, Ari~.•
Marjorie Marie-Rose of San Fr~n~1sco and Janet Overin of Wh1tuer,
Calif., and a brother, Emmett Raitt of
Irvine, Calif.
Peter Reed, Dancer
And Film Maker, 4~
-r--t
Peter Reed, a dancer, d1111ce-com·
y director and film maker, died
Sunday at his home in Manhattan
was 40.
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·Murdock, a friend.
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Mr. Reed was born in CinctnnaU.
· He trained as a dancer at the Arpetj:
can Conservatory Theater in Saal,
Francisco, where he became a princ;t,:
pal performer and choreographer
with the Pacific Ballet.
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In 1980 he moved to New York lllll.
founded the Contemporary Ballet
Company. He performed at Ctty Cen.
ter, the Kitchen, the Band Shell in
Central Park, and the Bette Stoler
Art Gallery, among other places.
Mr. Reed also wrote and directeel
short films. His first feature, "Un
Heat," starring Lee Grant and R
ert Knepper, Is to have Its wo~
premiere on June 16 at the San F
cisco Gay and Lesbian Film Festiv
He is survived by his mother,
thy Whittaker Reed of CinciMati
two sisters, Janet Goss of Boulde
Colo., and Dede Hagist of
Colo., and two brothers, Larry
Foster, both of San Francisco.
Mr. Reed's companion, the sculptr
James Ford, died of AIDS in 1992.
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David leaves his loving partner of nine
years, Lorenzo Parra, of Cambridge, their
adopted son and nephew Santiago Garcia
of Cambridge, mother-in-law Teresa Parra,
sister-in-law Anita Lujan and Judy Parra
of El Paso, Texas.
David also leaves a loving family of
friends: Tammy Kamionkowski, Tammy ,
Inianer, Ruthann Rudel, Leah Modigliani, · ' ·· '
Lavetta Whitfield, M!lfgaret Pajet, Bruce ·
Whitney, Dan Rosen, and Rolf Siogren.
So .many more pe(>ple not named here ,,;
whom~ tQUcbed ,and lov~ will miss him.
A *biot.iaJ a1lCf celebratirut of life was ··
hcld on May 4-: ContribJitfens in llis memory '
can lie mad6 to the AIDS'Law Project of
GLAD, and/or Oberlin College.
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son of Norfolk Countv
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and caro1 !Mahon) Rl~ of Franklin. Brolhlii'
of Michael P . Riley of Bellingham, Donna-~
ey of Quincy, GeraJvn Riley of Foxboro .,,..
Kathleen Riley of F"ranklin . Aleo survi.ct tw
his maternal grandmother Rita Mahon of
Hvde Park anaa dear friend Maura Bnidford
of Somerville. Funeral Wed. ~ from
the Crowtev Funeral Home. 3 8amer St..
Medwav followed t;>y a Mase @J 11):30 In St:
Thomas the Aoostte Church, ~ St.,
MUiis. Funeral home calling_ hOura T..-. 2 to
4 and 7 to 9 . ReiatlYe8 ancflrlnds kindly tnvlt·
ed. In lieu ~beexJ>f8!18i!>ns of aympa-
g:v~Somerville Hoabilal 230 Highland
c,I ~mu~~~
gram, c/o
Ave., Somerville, MA 02143.
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CLIFFORD JOSIAH RICH
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Clifford J. Rich, 34
Was advocate for gay youth,
A funeral service will be held to
day for Cliff ord Josia h Rich-, a
founder of the Boston Living Cente r
and an advocate for Boston Area
Gay and Lesbian Youth, who died of
complications from AIDS wedne
day in his home in Brookline. He was
34.
Victo r Henr y Roma no ofYa rmou thpor t
and Bosto n died May 9 of cereb ral
lymp homa at the age of 39. ~
Victo r was an accom plish ed sailor , a
gourm et chef, an avid squas h playe r and
taugh t squas h at tl'le Mid- Cape Healt h and
Racq uet Club.
He was direc tor of incen tive trave l for
Gran d Metro polita n Hotels, PLC, based
in New York City; was empl oyed by
Cuna rd Lines, wher e he serve d aboar d the
Quee n Eliza beth 2; was mana ger of the
Oak Bar at New York 's Plaza Hotel and
also work ed as a real estate broker. In
1986 he estab lished Truth in Vend ing, an
all-na tural snack and juice vend ing company, with accou nts throu ghou t Cape Cod.
Victo r was born in Winc heste r, wher e
he atten ded publi c schoo l. He also attende d Tabo r Acad emy in Mari on and
Clifton Colle ge in Bristol, Engla nd, wher e
he took his A-Le vels in Engli sh and Math emati cs. He then earne d a BS at Whar ton
Scho ol of Busin ess, a BA at the Univ ersity of Penn sylva nia, a MPS at the Corn ell
Scho ol of Hotel Admi nistra tion, and an
MBA at the Johns on Scho ol of Management in 1983 .
He is survi ved by his partner, Joel Evans;
his moth er, Jenn ie Dayt on of
Yann outhp ort; his broth er and sister -inJaw, Mr. and Mrs. Robe rt Roma no of
Mr. Rich was born in Boston and
raised in Needham. Before illness
overcame him, he was study ingto ~ a bachelor's degre e in
Phillip James Revty
tion at the University of M.a.sE;allu-l
April S, 1959-May II, 1994
setts at Boston.
Phillip died peacefuUy in his home
Mr. Rich enjoyed working
after a hard·
fur
children. He was a math tu
fough t battle
with AIDS. At
Jobs for Youth, a residential C01.B¥N!lhis side was his
or for Communities for People, an
longtim e compafor Boston Area Gay and
advocate
nion, Ron Shore;
Lesbian Youth and a founder of the
his mother, Elizabeth Revty; his
Boston Living Cente r, an AIDS supAunt Peg; Cousport network.
in Tracy ; and
In his spare time he was a ·tuclose friend s,
dent of tai chi.
Timo thy and
He leaves his mother, Joyce (AlAll
Andre a.
len) of Brookline; two sister~, Robin those who were with Phillip in his last
of Gary, Ind., and Liddy of St. Paul; few month s of life were amue d and in
and
and a broth er, Jame s of New York awe of his unend ing strength, grace
inner peace.
City and Los Angeles.
Born in Reno. Nevada, Phillip went
The funeral service will be held on to satisfy his lifelong desire to travel
at 10 _a.m. in Levi ne Chap el in and see the world by becom ing a flight
Brookline. Burial will be in baron attend ant for Trans World Airlines.
Phillip eventually settled in San FranMemorial Park in Sharon.
. South Boston . March 19 1995
Palrlck
feate (l')g Daugh ter .of the lateSister of
Rfng) ~ers Belove d
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bo ry E. Rogers of South Boston and Mel:
FLb., clevoEted Sister of the late Marga
rel
'1-m.t;.,
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_rose/Hcdward , .John, Alice Conno l,
~ll~t h=io ~~T? 2 Conca nnon, .James
d by
severa l nieces and ogers. Also survive
hours
In the .John .J · O'Conej)hews. Visiting
and Son Funera l
nnor
Home 7
BIVd.)
DORC 'HE~~ ams St. (Nr. Galliva n
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"'9"ial Mass w/11°~
cs s Church on Friday at 10 o'clock on,respec
11\/esment ~..!!le nds lieu of tfully invited ." lions
flowers d
.,. ••a,e. In
~}: be made lo St. Monica 's Chu rJ:~
Center 77
.,.,,.,on or the .Jesuit Urban l&.
5 Har•
rison Ave., Boston , MA 02l
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bough t a wonderful home high on a hill
where they lived with their two cats,
Pavlova and Alexander.
Phillip was a man of many passions.
Besides traveL he loved baseball, opera
and most of all ... Star Trek.
A memo rial celebr ation will be held
on Sunda y, June 5, 5 p.m., at the
Swede nborg ian Churc h. 2107 Lyon
Street at Was h~.
I'm ready DOW: beam me Up, Scottie.
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Die. 13, 199', 111 36
Direc tor at San
Diego's Old Globe
Theat re and the assistan t direct or of
Broad way's reviva l
of Damm Yankees.
South Yarm outh and their children.
A memo rial servi ce will be held Satur day, May 14at3 :30p. m. at Doane, Beal&
Ames , 729 Route 134, South Denn is, MA.
Mem orial contr ibutio ns can be made to
the Amer ican Canc er Socie ty, 372 Main
St., West Yarm outh, MA, 0267 3.
Paul J. Roddy, 38
Was state ci'l!Jj~i'!!:e,;l,
RICIIAD JIYIIEII
Oct. 'l1, 1995, 111 53
Actor and stage director who appea red
on TV in Party of
Five, Star Trek: Deep
Space Nine, and One
Life to Live.
Tony de Kosa
September 10, 1994
Tony died Sept. 10 in bis belove d
Amsterdam. As a young child, bis
father used to
take him to bars
Paul J. Roddy of Ashland, a civil
engineer, died Thurs day at Fram where he loved
listening to evingha m Union Hospital from complierybody's story.
cations of lymphoma. He was 38.
Later, be would
A native of West Roxbury, Mr.
tell a few of bis
Latin
Roddy gradu ated from Boston
own in the uncompleted saga
School in 1975 and from the Univerof bis life as barMass achus etts in 1979 with a
sity of
tender aL the
degre e in civil engineering.
Ambush, living
issioned as
In 1980 he was comm
with bis friend
David Bacbt rom
a US Navy officer.
Mr. Roddy worked for the Mass- after leavin g bis job at Bank of
America.
achu setts High way Depa rtme nt,
Tony realizJed bis dream of having
ent engineer, on a bar in Amsterdam when be took the
where he was resid
numerous construction projects. He Spier , which bad been losing busiinto die black by hosting
was also a mem ber of the State Un- ness, back groups and making it a
unity
ction Team. commnt place to hang. Cycliftg out
derw ater Bridge Inspe
pleasa
Most recen tly Mr. Roddy was an en- of that, be started an English lanStreets. His
gineer for O'Brien Kreit zberg Asso- guage paper, Trash in the
unmistakable style was all over it
ciates.
others, help made it a
He leaves his wife Chris tine of and, along with
who knew Too was
Ashland; a daugh ter, jillian of Ash- ~ o n e
ley) touched by the wonderful ~ be
land; his mother, Nore en (Crow
included in bis huge cirof Wes t Roxb ury; six broth ers, was and felt
St. cle of friends .. We all will miss him.
Thomas of Lexington, Charl es of
to get togeCber to
. · Isl ands , William of J a- Anyone wanting please leave a mesremember Tony,
J ohn, Virgm
84. T
macia Plain, John F. of West Rox- sage at 641-12
of West Roxbury and
bury, Jame s P.
Gerald L. of West Roxbury; three
sister s. Nore en Myrin of Stockholm
and Nlulcy M<;Gillicuddy and Patri cia Etlin g, both of West Roxbury.
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on
Decembe r
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R!t
-Of Texas, formerly of Scituate •
.w
Mlll:k ,R.. suddenly, age 39 years '
Bro e r ~ Hasti~s of Condon~·
~ ~~ HColllns of Scituate, .Matthew
Ml!uof
,_,,.,, ampton, NH, and Me& Hubbell Whitman. Loving son of the late Doris
Reilly . of Scituate. Beloved companion C1f
Danjel MNler of Tomball, TX. A Memorial
Ma88 wHI be celebrated at St. Mary of the
~ ~ l ~ h a p e l of !tie Infant
1 00
T....cfay, May 21 , 1996.
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.. Dog breeder Ralf L.
Reveley, SB, of Burbank, Calif. , died Sept.
14 due to complications from AIDS: Reveley
was president of the Cocker Spaniel Club
of Southern California. He is survived by
his life partner, Larry C. Hathaw~7
R ~ Suddenly, March 8. 1of995An .11111181
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ng ton .
The oeloved son
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{Burns) Devoted father of Derek. Loving
brother of Laura, Marie and Ste~hen .~ ~
m:n~cRifa~~ ~;tu~al
..&r~ashl!'Qton Street CAI Lake Street) BRIGHTON, PSlil·
urday at 9 Funeral Mass in Our Lady m resentslion Church at 10. Visiting hours Friday
2-4 and 7-9. Interment Saint Joserialpcontrlh
tery. In lieu of flowers. memo
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566 Mass Avenue, Boston, MA. 02118
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Neil M. Rat/ill, 58,
M
A ' uaic Librarian
Nicholas Romania
Nicholas Romania, 31, of Rutland
Square, Boston, died June 26 at Deaconess Hospital from complications due to
'14-/7- '1'('
AIDS.
Originally from Wayne, NJ, Nick
graduated from Gettysburg College in
Gettysburg, PA, and completed his MBA
at O:.lmell University in Ithica, NY. After leaving Cornell, Nick moved to
Shelton, CT to accept a position as brand
manager for Proctor and Gamble. In 1990,
Nick came to Boston to take a position as
Marketing director at Polaroid Corp.
Besides his many friends, Nick was
survived by his parents, Nicholas and
Eleanor Romania of Wayne, NJ, his
brother, Anthony Romania of Prescott,
AZ and two sisters, Catherine Mattera of
Wayne, NJ and Candy Romania of
Bloomfield, NJ. Nick was also survived
by two nieces and two nephews.
A funeral mass was celebrated at Holy
Cross Cathedral in Boston on June 29,
followed by a procession to Mt. Auburn
Cemetery in Cambridge. Arrangements
were made through Waterman and Sons
Funeral Home in Boston.
Nick's friends and family will always
remember his confidence, quick-
wittedness, intelligence and ability to
find humor in any situation. Nick will
also be remembered for his tenacious
strength and determination in battling
his illness. His belief in himself, along
with his will to live, empowered him to
research and direct his own medical treatments. His courage will never be forgotten.
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JERRY RIFE
lln. 23, 1994, age 49
Founder of Summit
Production Account-
En el mes del Barrimiento de los
ing. Former VP of
Caminos lOchpaniztli)- cuando e~atl el
production finance at
viento sopla con luerza y barre los campos y esparce las semillas que van a
Ron Howard's film
reposar durante el inv1erno recibiendo la
company, Imagine.
energia c6smica necesana para germinar
cuando se inicie la ~ a de verdor- nuestro amado Arilke inici6 su viaje hada el Coraz6n C6smico donde reposara y vivira
eternamente en armonia. Todos aquellos que n,vimos el privilegio de disfrutar de su
presenaa y que heredamos su alegria y entusiasmo por la vida. ademas de su belleza
inigualable. nos unimos en meditad6n espiritual para acompariarle en su nueva vida
y seguir asl, dlsfrutando de el
Una ceremonia se llevar;~ a cabo / A ceremony in his honor will take place.
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Neil M. Ratliff, a music llbrartma
and expert on Greek music, died
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Saturday at the Hospice of Washlnat
·.
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on. He was 58 and lived in Washing- ~
ton.
1be cause was AIDS, said Herb
Scher, a spokesman for the New
York Public Library.
As the head of the music library a
the University of Maryland in Col
lege Park, Mr. Ratliff also dlrec
the International Plano Archives a
Maryland, which under his leader
shi~ became a major center for
study and preservation of historic JIE RICIAIIIII
pi1;1no performances. He had prevl Nn. 4, 1995, age 48
ously spent 17 years as a musl Former director
librarian of the performing-arts col of publicity stills
lectlon of the New York Public Li for Walt Disney
Studios.
brary at Lincoln Center.
Mr. Ratliff was an expert o
Greek music and was awarded a
Fulbright grant this year to esta
lish a music library for the recentl
built Athens Concert Hall. He became too ill to be&ln the assignment.
Mr. Ratliff was a native of Louisiana. He received a bachelor's degree
in music from the University of
Southeastern Louisiana and a master's degree in library science from
Columbia University. He also did
graduate work in musicology at lndl(1\la University. In addition to his
position at the University of Mary~
land, he was a lecturer at Catholic
University, and from 1983 to 1987 he
was the secretary general of the
lt)temallonal Auoctatlon of Music
Libraries.
• He Is survived by a brother, John,
t Falls Church, Va., and a sister,
Joy, of Huntington, W.Va.
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51- :)8.Aj1
By JENNIFER DUNNING
Walter Raines, a dancer and teachr who was a charter member of
nee Theater of Harlem and the
irector of its school, died on Sunday
this home in Manhattan. He was 54.
The cause was AIDS, said Jeffrey
ankinson, his cousin.
Mr. Raines was a classical ballet
ancer of an elegance so unyielding
at he could stand on his hands for
wo minutes, or so it seemed in Arur Mitchell's "Biosfera," without
Ing his distinguished look. But Mr.
aines also choreographed, taught
llet at several universities as well
s at Dance Theater of Harlem,
taged rock acts and Off Broadway
lays and was even responsible for
e art direction and costumes for the
film "The Cruz Brothers and Miss
Malloy" (1980).
'A Man of the Theater'
"I've been warned against being a
jack-of-all-trades and master of
none," Mr. Raines said in a 1977 interview, "but when I die I'd just like to
be called 'a man of the theater.' "
Mr. Raines was born in Braddock,
Pa., and trained in dance at the Pittsburgh Playhouse School of Theater
and Dance and the New York City
Ballet-affiliated School of American
Ballet. He was also a graduate of
Carnegie-Mellon University. In addition to his career ·with the Harlem
company, where he danced from 1968
to 1978, Mr. Raines performed with
the Stuttgart Ballet in Germany and
the Pennsylvania Ballet.
He was an associate professor at
City College of New York from 1978 to
1989 and headed several programs at
the Alvin Ailey American Dance Center in the 1980's. He was also a guest
teacher in Germany at the Tanz-Forum der Oper der Stadt Ktlln, at the
Vienna Opera Ballet and at Den
Norske Ballet of Oslo.
Mr. .Raines created ballets for companies including Dance Theater of
Harlem and the Capitol Ballet of
Washington. He was the first black
choreo~rapher to work at the Royal
Opera m London, creating the dance
and musical staging for Michael Tippett's "Ice Break" in 1977.
No immediate family members
survive.
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Jeffrey Rubin of Cherry
Curtis Reace, 28, of Somerville, passed
Hospice at Mission Hill on
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September2 0, 1994athisre si-' Aug. 19 following a courageous battle
dence in Cherry Hill. He was with AIDS. Curtis was born on August 22,
1965 in Babylon, NY.
In 1980, he moved from New York with
48 years old. He was a hair
stylist for the past 14 years at his mother Eleanor and his younger
L'Etoile in Jenkintown , Pa. brother, James. He graduated from
He attended Temple Univer- Newman Prep and attended Northeastern
sity in Philadelphi a. Rubin University. In 1990, after discovering that
alsoworked asamodelin New he was HIV-positive, he became a memYork and Philadelphi a, and beroftheAID SActionCom mitteeSpeak - Jk
was an actor and a singer. He ers Bureau. Through the AAC Speakers
w as a member of New Jersey Bureau, Curtis made great effort to reach
Regional Theater, the JCC many people to inform them on how they
Theater Group, and Society: may keep from getting AIDS. His largest
Hill Playhouse. He used the audiencewas 5,000incomi ngBoston Uni- Lemieux, his mom Eleanor and his brother
stage name of Jeffrey Dou- versity freshmen in which Curtis deliv- James
Donations made in his memory may be
glas. Mr. Rubin worked as a ered a message of safe-sex which stuck in
for Welcome !he mindso~man y. Curtis' genuinely lov- made to The AIDS Action Committee, at
travel agent
Aboard Travel and Town & mg and canng personality will remain in 131 Clarendon St., Boston, MA 02118, or
to The Hospice at Mission Hill, 20 Parker
Country Travel both in Phila-1 the hearts of all who knew him.
Curtis is survived by his partner Joe Hill Ave., Boston, MA 02215. 9~
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d el phi a.
He was the son of the late
Morris and Minnie Rubin, and
is survived by his step-father,
Carl W. Ramos of Salem, Massachu- Henderson of Salem, and Marc A. Furtado
William Toll; two brothers,
setts, formerly of East Boston and Bos- of Dracut.
A funeral was held at the Rapino Me
Edward Rubin of Lower
ton, died on Nov. 9 after complication s
morial Home on Nov. 12, and was foldue to AIDS. t:J"f
Gwynedd, Pa., and Alan Rubin
Cherished son of Walter and Catherine lowed by a Mass of Christian Burial ·
of Collegeville , Pa.; and by a
(Ferrera) Ramos of East Boston. Dear Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church. In lieu
special friend, Jeffrey Kern ofi
brother of Catherine A. Ramos & Robert, of flowers, donations in Carl's memory
Cherry Hill.
both of Salem; and Walter, Jr., of Revere. may be made to the North Shore AIDS
Michael Rosenquist
Devoted companion of the late Scott A. Health Project, 25 Duncan Street,
Aug. 17, 1950 - Nov. 27, 1994
MacDonald and longtime friends of Neil Gloucester, MA 01938.
Mike finally let go after living
with HIV for 15 years. He died at
home, hand-in-
Carl W. Ramos
Jess Richards, 51, an Actor
ing companion,
Broadway and Off
Mario Bufo, and In Shows
of
in
hand with his lovthe company
family and his
dog. Elsa.
on
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By LAWRENCE VAN GELDER
Jess Richards, a versatile actor
of Bay Area
in who appeared in 11 Broadway shows
Teleport
Alameda before and numerous Off Broadway, tourhis retirement in ing and regional productions, died on
1992. He earned Sunday at his home in Indianapolis.
an MBA at He was 51.
Cornell University and an undergradThe cause was AIDS, his agent,
uate degree in city planning.
Mike was also an expert skier, an Beverly Anderson said.
avid boater and a lousy golfer.
Mr. Richards was generally to be
Enamon:d of fine automobiles, be
owned more than 30 in his lifetime. found in musicals, playing roles that
Durin~ his retirement he traveled ranged from the sailor Chip, one of
extensively and volunteered at the leads in the 1971 Broadway reProject Inform.
vival of "On the Town,'' to the impreBut the man who died was more sario in a 1992 production of "Phanthan acquisitions and activities. Mike tom of the Opera" in Fort Worth.
wu a courageous risk-taker. He was a
generous, honest and responsible
On Broadway, his credits included
friend; a trustworthy business part- "Barnum" (for which he studied
ner; a best friend and role model for Juggling and wire walking with the
his family; and a sweet, caring lover. Big Apple Circus), "Two by Two,''
A memorial service is being
at Nine
planned. Contributions marked in "South Pacific,'' "Nash
memory of Michael may be sent to " Mack and Mabel."
Project Inform, 1965 Market Street,
Off Broadway and in ca~
San Francisco, CA 94103.
appeared in such production,
his mother, "Dames at Sea,'' the Lyrica,
Mike is survived by
Mary; his sisters, Lisa and Karen; his
Lyricists series, "Lullaby of
brother, David; nieces and nephews:
his father, Richard; Richard's wife, way" and "Josh Logan's M
Scrapbook" at the Rainbow Grill.
Jill: and many great friends. 't'
Mike was CEO
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Among his regional credits J.ere
"The Tempest" at the American .
Shakespeare Festival Theater in ·
Stratford, Conn., "Loot" at the McCarter Theater in Princeton, N.J.,
Seattle
and "The Seagull" at
Repertory. He touredna onally in
"Hello, Dolly!," "Irene" a d "Mack
and Mabel."
Mr. Richards's performance in
"On the Town" in 1971 won him a
Theater World award for best actor
in a musical.
Mr. Richards, whose original
name was Richard Sederholm, was
born in Seattle and was a graduate of
the University of Washington, where
he studied acting.
He is survived by his mother, Permelia Sederholm of Seattle, and a
brother, Jack Sederholm of Indianapolis.
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Levering Rothfuss,
Pianist, Dies at 42
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Levering Rothfuss, a pianist and
vocal coach, died on Monday at St.
Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital. He was
42 and lived in Manhattan.
The cause was pneumonia, said
his mother, Reva Rothfuss.
Mr. Rothfuss was the accompanist
or vocal coach for many singers
from the Metropolitan and New
York City Operas, including Marilyn
Horne, Tatiana Troyanos, Carol
Neblett, J ohn Alexander and Wil- '
liam Parker. He also served on the
musical staffs of the Sa nta Fe, Glimmerglass and Chautauqua opera
companies, and was the accompanist for the MacAJister Awa rds and
the Opera Index Awards.
He wa s born in Monroe City, Mo.,
and received degrees in music from
the University of Missouri in Columbia and the University of Southern
California in Los Angeles. He served
as a judge for the district auditions
of the Metropolitan Opera and was
involved in the training of young
accompanists.
ln addition to his mother, he is
survived by his father, Earl, both of
Monroe City, and two sisters, Susan
Rothfu&S and Helen Custer, both of
Arltnaton, Va.
Dr. David E.
Rogers, headed
major foundation
NEW YORK - Dr. David E.
Rogers, a professor at Cornell
University Medical College and
former president of the Robert
Wood Johnson Foundation, a
private philanthropy, died Monday of cancer. He was 68.
Dr. Rogers was named to the
honorary staff of New York •
Hospital-Cornell Medical Center
in 1987 and had served as the
senior adviser to the president
of the New York Academy of
Medicine since 1990.
From 1975-1990, Dr. Rogers
was president of the Robert
Wood Johnson Foundation in ·
Princeton, N.J. He served as
dean of medicine at Johns Hopkins University and medical director of Johns Hopkins Hospital from 1968 to '72.
Dr. Rogers recently chaired
the New York City Mayoral
Task Force on AIDS and the
Governor's Advisory Council for
the New York State AIDS Institute.
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Gary J. Robles
June 1, 1960 - Dec. 4, 1994
Gary left us on Dec. 4 to be in a
better place; he was at home with his
family
and
friends at his
side. Gary was a
very warm. lovable guy, always
outgoing
and
eager to make
friends. He was
an inspiration to
other HIV-positive
people
around him.
Gary was loved
by everyone who
was fortunate enough to become part
of his life, which was filled with
music. His favorite gift to give was a
homemade tape he spent hours creating. He was also an avid health
enthusiast, resulting in a body anyone
would be envious of.
Gary is survived by his mother,
Angie; father, Ernest; sisters, Debi
and Terry; brother, Ken; and countless other relatives and friends. "Hey,
Gary. Each of us has a special song
that will always remind us of you."
Funeral arrangements were held
December 8 at Oakhill Funeral
Services in San Jose. Donations may
be made in Gary's name to the San
Francisco AIDS Foundation, 25 Van
Ness Ave., SF, CA 94102. A memorial will be held on Dec. 18 at 208-B
Lily St. For information call John or
Ted at 252-9072. 'Y
Mic1iel de Ii Roche
OcL 31, 1937 - Dec. 2, 1994
Michel de la Roche died at home
on the evening of Friday, December 2. Born in
France, Michel
was a graduate of
Cambridge University in England who moved
to the United
States in the late
1970s and became a naturalized citizen over
a decade ago.
A longtime
international tour
manager, he had recently founded De .
La Roche Ltd., his own deluxe travel
and tour planning company. As an
inveterate traveler, he had close personal friends throughout the world.
As a San Francisco leathermao and
activist, he was an important member
and officer of The 15 Association,
and co-founder of MAST (Masters
and Slaves Together).
A unique and special man, Michel
will be widely and greatly missed. He
is survived by an estranged biological
family and an affectionate, gay family of choice, including Fred, his master and lover since 1986.
Michel's life and contributions to
the community will be celebrated by
friends on the patio of the Eagle on
Saturday, December 17, from 6 to 8
p.m. 'Y
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Friends of
who
served as exec hve rector of Gay
l
Men's Health Crisis and cha irman of
Beth Simcha t Torah synagogue in
Manhattan, sent dona tions in his
memory. He was 42 when he died of
AIDS-related lung cancer last year. A
close friend who gave $500 recalled in
a letter that Mr. Rosen was a "wonderfully giving cltize.»gfJjp'!.~k."
Rodney
Rose
November 8, 1954December 9, 1994
Rodney Rose passed awaYi
mercifully in his sleep on December 9 from corhplications
due to AIDS. At his side was his
lifetime partner, Stephen
Schenk.
. Richard E. Rossell
Bob Randall, 57, TV Producer
And Broadway Playwright
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rising souffle," and the Drama
named Mr. Randall the most pro
Ing playwright of the year.
Mr. Randall adapted the play for a
television special in 1974 that starred
Alan Alda and Carol Burnett. In 1974,
his musical "The Magic Show," written for the magician Doug Henning,
opened at the Cort Theater.
Mr. Randall also wrote three suspense novels: "The Fan" (1977), a
mystery that was made into a film
starring Lauren Bacall; "The Next"
(1981), and "The Calling" (1981).
In addition to his work on "Kate
and Allie," from 1984 to 1988, he
wrote for the CBS series "On Our
Own" (1977) and the television movie "David's Mother" (1994), which
he adapted from his 1991 play of the
same name.
In addition to Mr. Pratt, he is
survived by a son, Edward, and a
daughter, Julia, both of Manhattan,
and a sister, Matl'lilda Stollman of
Royal Palm Beach, Fla. a. . .;s-
By WILLIAM GRIMES
Bob Randall, the author of the
Broadway comedy "6 Jllms Riv Vu"
and the head writer and co-producer
of the television series "Kate and
Allie," died yesterday at his home in
New Milford, Conn. He was 57.
The cause was AIDS, said Gary
Pratt, his companion.
Mr. Randall, whose original name
was Stanley B. Goldstein, was born
in the Bronx. He attended the High
School of Music and Art in Manhattan, earned a bachelor's degree from
New York University, and acted
with a Gilbert and Sullivan troupe
for four years before becoming a
copy writer and associate creative
director at the Marschalk advertising agency. He had worked there for
10 years when "6 Rms Riv Vu,"
about two strangers locked in a Riverside Drive apartment, opened on
Broadway In 1972. Clive Barnes, In
his review In The New York Times,
called the olav "as cheerful as a
Robert "Bob" D. Rush
Novelist Joel Redon died last week.
He published three novels and wrote
several powerful
essays. He learned
that he had AIDS
in 1986.
.
In the years
that followed, Joel
enjoyed the bar
life in New York,
Ponland and San
Francisco.
His
favorite year was
, 1992, when he had
his own apanment
on Post Street in
San Francisco.
Joel came to live in Guemeville,
Calif.. with his friend Joan Leslie
Taylor. also a writer. Eventually his
health worsened, and he was diagnosed
with AIDS dementia He accomplished
three essays in the last months of his
life, a writer until the end. When he
could no longer walk and even reading
became hard, he committed suicide.
Joel is survived by his parents. Earle
and V ' Anne Didzun; a sister, Gayle
Mickey; a brother, Andrew Didzun. all
of Lake Oswego, Oregon; and his
friend, Joan Taylor. who helped him as
his disease progressed. His papers are
preserved at the Oregon Historical
Society. His ashes will be interred at
2.ena Cemetery in Oregon. where his
ancestors, who inspired several of bis
novels, are buried.
"To have placed the impossible
word on the rainbow's arc, then it would
have all been said." T
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Feb. 21, 1951 - Dec. 23, 1994
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Nov. 15, 1961 - June 6, 1'95
On the morning of December 23,
our dear friend Bob decided enough
was enough and
peacefully left us
to spend Christmas with and join
in a new life with
bis soul mate and
life partner, Steve.
Those of us who
knew Bob well
feel blessed by bis
unconditional love
and friendship. We
considered
him
our "Rock of
Gibraltar," tall, handsome and strong,
always there for bis friends no matter
what. We also know be was a big teddy
,
/~
bear.
Bob bad been a financial counselor
at St. Mary's Hospital, and during bis
last few days, it was clear bow wellrespected be was by bis fellow workers
by the wonderful care and support they
gave him.
Bob was preceded in death by bis
brodler Johnny and sister Pat. Re is survived by bis mother, Janice; father,
Kcnaetb; brodler, Paul; sister, Kim;
04
Peppermint Patty"; cats; Butch;
Blanche and Babe; and bis extended
family of friends and «:&workers.
Until we share that next shot of
schnapps, we say farewell, dear friend.
Know that you an1 missed and thought
of every single day.
In lieu of Dowers, memorial donalions may be made to Pro;_. Open
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Michael Carter
Rusk, 27, died
Friday, February
3, 1995 at his
home in Potomac, Maryland,
of AIDS related
complications,
according to his
friend, Patrick J.
Baglino Jr. pf
Washington,
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Rusk was born April 26, 1967 in D.C.
and grew up in Rosehaven, Md. and
Potomac. He graduated from Southern
High School in Harwood, Md. in 1985.
Rusk went on to study radio, television,
and film at the University of Maryland,
earning a bachelor's degree in 1991.
Rusk will be remembered for his sharp
wit, an incredible sense of humor, and
great creativity, said Baglino. His
interests included pottery, screenwriting,
bonsai tree planting, gardening, and travel.
In addition to Baglino, Rusk is survived by his parents, Janet and Leo Rusk
of Potomac; brother, John Rusk of SL
Louis, Mo.; sister, Janet Marion Rusk of
Potomac; and many loving friends.
A celebration of Rusk's life was held at
his home on Feb. 3. Rusk's remains were
cremated and his ashes will be scattered
along the shore in Vero Beach, Fla., by
his family.
Contributions in Rusk's name may be
made to Georgetown University Medical
Center, c/o Princy Kumar, M.D., 3800
Reservoir Rd. NW, Washington, DC
20007; or to Montgomery County Hospice, 1450 Research Blvd., Suite 310,
Rockville, MD 20850.
Michael P. Roth, Jr.
10/28/60 - 6/21/95
Mike passed away in Napa, his childhood home. A small service was held in Napa on Saturday, July l.
Mike's memory will live on with bis son
Trevor, his beloved mother Darlene
Schlarp and brother Douglas, his many
friends (including Stephen, Daniel, Tony,
Jenny, Susan, and his friends at Pacific
Bell), as well as in the hearts of his life part·
ner Ted Timbov and his family.
Per Mike's request, donations can be
made in his rµemory to the San
Francisco AIDS Foundation (25 Van
Ness Ave., Suite 660, SF 94102).
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A man of great humor and intelligence, full of love and gentieness, Mike loved music, cars, art and photography. Mike will always
be my best friend and soul-mate and will be dearly mi
ssed by
many.
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himself. As a reporter, I was =iupposed to record it. That was o\11'
deal. 5 -~ - ?S
A mutual friend who knew
Rick's intentions, and my interest in the story, brought us together. After several carefully
arranged telephone calls-which
I later found out were designed
to test if I might try to talk Rick
out of his plan-Rick agreed to
meet me.
That's what brought us together for the first time last year
at Rick's favorite comer diner, a
place where you were guaranteed a cheap cheeseburger and a
sass}"Waitress. Rick always said
the waitresses were the better
deal,-and the bigger draw.
Since I'd never met him before, Rick told me to look for his
signature black-and-white railroad cap. I thought trains might
be some kind of hobby, but I later
learned he wore the cap to cover
a head balded from the side effects of medication.
But even without the cap,
Rick was easy to spot in the restaurant. He was the one who
looked like he had AIDS.
Wasting syndrome had reduced him to a skeleton-like figure, the bones visibly protruding
under his skin. He was sitting on
a round cushion he called "the
, donut" because it resembled a
large, air-filled version of the
pastry. While he was sitting, the
donut made it possible for him
to carry what was left of his
weight without bones pushing
through his buttocks.
The first day we met at the
diner, Rick must have sat nearly
two hours before the donut
failed to stop his pain. As the
months passed, though, Rick
was lucky if the donut gave him
as much as ten minutes of relief.
And relief was exactly what
Rick was looking for, what he
had planned for himself when
the disease started taking too
high a toll on his body.
Rick knew·since 1986 he was
HIV-positive. He also knew the
potential agony that comes at the
end of a long-term illness: he had
buriedhislover,and watched his
father die a slow, rueful death
from cancer.
Rick was determined he was
not going to end up the same
way. He vowed that when the
time came that he no longer had
quality of life, he would end it.
Through a friend who was a
nurse, he planned to take the
right mix of drugs that would
quietly, painlessly end his life.
For several months after I
met Rick, he was still able to enjoy a little of his life. Though it
took him half an hour to walk to
his favorite bar just three blocks
from his apartment, he managed
tomakethetrekacoupleoftimes
a month. Since he could no
longer sit for any period of time,
friends would drop by his apartment bringing him one of those
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famous diner cheeseburgers.
Despite his complaint that the
burgers didn't taste the same
without the saucy waitresses, the
renewed sparkle in his sunken
blue eyes told you he.was happy
to get the treat.
Other times we'd go shopping for butter creams and
cheesecake to help him gain
weight. "I must be the only one
who buys these who doesn't
worry about the fat killing me!"
he'd say.
Within three months after our
first meeting, however, it was
clear to us both that there was
little remaining in Rick's day to
call a life. He left the apartment
only twice a month, both times
to go to the doctor. He regularly
slept 18 hours a day; the other six
he'd lay in and out of consciousness in front of the TY. He had
lost so much weight, he was in
constant pain from his bones
rubbing aga!nst the bed. Even
going to the bathroom became a
major ordeal.
"What quality of life do I
have?" he asked me the day he
decided to call his friend and ask
for the drugs. "I'm just waiting
·
to die."
But the nurse must have gotten cold feet, because she
wouldn't return Rick's calls. So
Rick began talking of other ways I
to kill himself, like an overdose
of street drugs. He even once
pleaded, "Play Dr. Kevorkian fo
me," begging me to smother mttj
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R. Rhael Rafik, formerly Richard Webb
a.k.a. "Aroma Lamour" passed away
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hibit designer, died Nov. 22 in Washington, D.C. His clients included the
Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Ravinia, Washington Opera, Colonial
Williamsburg Foundation and White
House Pi:eservatio~ Fund. S~rvjwrs
include his comparuon, nm Kierifllfi.
with a pillow, promi
wouldn't resist
te&!l
Other times he ~le
more drastic measwes, like car
accident or a bullet, ideas he
soon rejected. "Nothing me&sJ"
he told me without a trace of
irony.
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Well, Rick is dead now, and
though he didn't take his own
life, things feel very messy to me
indeed.
I still wonder why he had to
endure those last few month
alone in a nursing home, whe
he lost his dignity, his autonom
and the right to decide his o
fate. The last time I saw him,
kept repeating, "I just can't
this anymore. I just can't take
any more." And no one shoul
have to.
But we live in a society whe
Rick's last wish was a..erime o
both law and culture.
The real crime, though,is tha
Rick died alone in a nursin
home, away from his circle o
friends and without anyone b
his side to give him the pro
farewell he could have arran
is he was allowed to do thing
as he'd planned.
Instead, he slipped silentl
into a coma and passed awa
with his eyes wide open, the wa
he had always faced death.
beauty of Provincetown, Richard made it
his home in 1990. For many summers he
could be found working at the clothing
store Zazz or cruising Commercial Street
with friends. With his satirical wit, quick
tongue and outrageous drag, Richard was
well known.
He will be greatly missed by his m~y
friends and family, especially his sense
of humor, the lilt in his walk, his oudook
on the world and, of course, the Mothen
Day brunc~es.
A celebration of Richard Rhael's life
will be held on April 1 in Boston•
n 45, of complications rom AIDS May m Houston.
Richardson had been a radiologist on the
staff of Georgetown University Hospital
and was also the founding director of the
Gay Men·s Chorus of Washington, D.C.,
of which he had been a member for ten
years, until 1991. 11/7
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Ron Richardson Is Dead at 43;
Won a Tony in 'Big River' Role
By MEL GUSSOW
Ron Richardson, who won a Tony
Award in 1985 for his performance
as Jim in the Broadway musical
"Big River: the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," died yesterday at
Lawrence Hospital in Bronxville,
N.Y. He was 43 and lived in Mount
Vernon, N.Y.
The cause was AIDS, said his
manager, Michael Bolanos.
When he played Jim, the runaway
slave in the Roger Miller-William
Hauptman adaptation of Mark
Twain's "Huckleberry Finn," Mr.
Richardson was praised for the tragic resonance of his acting and his
powerful singing. His deep-timbred
voice seemed as deep as the Mississippi, the river that carried him and
Huck Finn (Daniel H. Jenkins) on
their journey. Together, the two elevated the songs "River in the Rain"
and "Muddy Water" into Mississippi
anthems.
Mr. Richardson's approach ~o Jim
boat," "Camelot" and "Man of La
Mancha." When he was 25, he played
"Sportin' Life" in the Houston Grand .
Opera production of "Porgy and
Bess." Later he had a small role on
Broadway in "Timbuktu!," and he
was in the Los Angeles production of
"Dreamgirls. "
In 1985, he was hired for "Big
River" after auditioning and being
called back five times. The musical
opened on April 25, several weeks
before the deadline for Tony nominations. For Mr. Richardson, the show
(directed by Des McAnuff) was a
life-changing experience, and it remained the high point of his career.
After playing Jim, he appeared in
the musical " Oh, Kay!" and at the
American Place Theater in Leslie
Lee's "Ground People," in which he
played the iron-handed leader of a
minstrel troupe. In London he
starred as Husky Miller in the Old
Vic revival of "Carmen Jones." He
also toured with a concert act, performing in Moscow, St. Petersburg
and Riga, Latvia. In 1993, he appeared on Broadway in a limited
engagement of "The Boys Choir of
Harlem and Friends" and also took
.part in "Summer in Nagasaki," a
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In addition to his father and mother, William F. and Amanda Richardson, he is survived by two brothers,
the Rev. W. Franklyn Richardson
(the pastor of Grace Baptist Church
in Mount Vernon) and Raymond
Lloyd Richardson; a sister, Vickilyn
Reynolds, and three nephews and
one niece.
was heroic. " When I play Jim," he
told an interviewer from The New
York Times, " I am playing my
grandfather, and my mother swears
I look like him as a young man. He
was born a free man, but his father
and mother were slaves. He was
very strong, and very majestic."
"Majestic" was, in fact, a word
often used to describe Mr. RichardGarrett B. Riley, beloved son of Anne
son on the stage. For his perform- M. Riley and the late Joseph Riley of
ance in "Big River," he received a
died peacefully at
Tony as best supporting actor in a South Orleans, MA,
musical; he also won a Drama Desk his home in Boston on April 19 following a courageous battle with AIDS. ,r,f;
award.
Later he toured in "Big River," in
Born on March 29, 1952, in Bristol,
1988 playing his role in Japan, with a CT, Gary graduated from New Haven
Japanese cast. He sang in English College and attended the Art Institute in
but spoke his lines in Japanese,
Gary was emlearning the dialogue phonetically, Boston. Until his illness,
ployed as a Sales Representativ e of Brita Japanese coach.
with the help of
Mr. Richardson was born in West ish Airways in Boston where he rePhiladelphia on Jan. 27, 1952. His ceived a National Outstanding Employee
father was a laborer in the meat- Award in 1992. He was a current mempacking industry and his mother opthe Dramatist Guild and co-writer
erated a beauty parlor in their home ber of
From the of a play produced in San Francisco in
for more than 30 years.
age of 4, he sang in a neighborhood 1993.
church; he went from high school
Gary's passion for travel and living
choirs to performances in dinner life to its fullest took him world-wide.
theater musicals, taking lime to His sharp wit, humor and love from the
study voice and music composition.
all those he
In the early 1970's he appeared in heart will be treasured by
touched.
and around Philadelphia in " ShowIn addition to his mother, Gary is
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~~~lh~~'/"~ n~~fl8g;'J~ ~aR~ Orleans; Chris of Greenwich, CT; a sisBurley of Everett and Rhonda of Malden.
Former husband of Andrea Acquaviva of
ter, Jo-Anne Lossio of Boston; a niece,
Malden. Funeral from the Salvatore Rocco &
Sons Fu.-al Home, 331 Main St., EVER·
an aunt, two uncles, and his devoted
ETT, Friday, June 18 at 8 a .m . Funeral Mass
In the Immaculate Conception Church. Ever9
companion, Carl Johnson.
~~~y tg
~e':Jt
Gary, you've inspired us in many
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.
vi~,l~~-::sve~n=:
to the Aids Action Commtt?'ee, 131 Claren-
don St., Boston, MA . 02116 . ln~r,a,ent
'1>
Woodlawn Ceme1ery, Everett.
'
Garret t B. Riley
ways. We will miss your laughter, your
creativity and your love, but we'll forever see you in all those old familiar
places.
At his request, services will be private. Donations in his memory may be
made to the Hospice at Mission Hill, 20
Parker Hill, Boston, MA 02120.
Robb Rodd
Cha rles Edw in Rea de
7/ - 9...f
Juae3, 19'5
Charles Edwin Reade of Boston died
of complic ations from AIDS on May 31.
Born in Boston on Septem ber 20, 1960,
scended to the he grew up and attende d schools in
spiritual
plane Sudbury, later moving to Milwauke, and
June 3. His devoted friends, George then back to Boston where he made his
and Craig, and his home for the past 15 years.
Dad Sam and
Charles worked for Concor d Lumbe r
Mom 1belma were
Co., and later joined Jeffery Adams
near his bedside.
Hailing from Construction Co. of Concor d where he
Detroit,
Robb learned the skills of finish carpent
ry. He
toyed with the dramatic in high most recently worked for John Tom Inc.
school and then of Boston and as a self-em ployed carmoved to New York City where he penter.
acted and sang. Turning to other careers
Charles ' strong political beliefs reand diversions, be was a photographer's
rep and later worked as a waiter.
garding the Western treatme nt of HIV/
In 1985, Robb migrated to San
Francisco and started working at Uno's AIDS led him to follow a path of alterPiu.eria where be eventually became native treatme nts which were centere d
manager. It was about the time of the around naturopathy and several other
Harmonic Convergence in 1987 that he
embraced his celestial self. Robb found holistic therapies. This approach allowed
great pleasure in sharing his spiritual Charles to remain in control and focused
love and compassionate self with oth- throughout his HIV manage ment.
ers.
Charles ' great love for the arts kept
After his retirement from restaurant
work in 1991, he was instrumental in him involved in dance and music where
bringing the Japanese healing technique he enjoyed eccentr ic forms of self-exof Reiki to San Francisco.. As a Reiki pression. Charles was a poet, avid reader
channel, be helped many with hands-on \ d hil
·
healing at the Quan Yin Center.
·
an p osopher, po~ess m~ .a keen mRobb's many friends will celebrate tellect and an outstan dmg ability to comhis life at the AIDS Memorial Grove in munica te on many levels
with anyone .
Golden Gate Park on Saturday, July 15. 1H'
· ·
d 'th
at 2 p.m. AU are invited to join us after I 1s spmt ra d'
1ate w1 a great sense o f
the memorial at 154 Bocana Street. For humor and exubera nce for living.
IIIOl'C information, caU George at (415)
Charles will be greatly missed by his
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mother, Jean S. Reade of Concor d; his
father, George A. Reade and steP,mother
Our good friend Robb Rodd truly
became "The Man Who Got Away"
when be tran-
IN MEMORY OF
DAN RIFFIN
LarRobenon
Lou Reade of Mattap oisett; brother
Frank G. Marx ll of Jersey City, NJ; and
sisters Margar et A. Marx of W. Hart.
ford, CT, Sarah J. Miner of Waterford,
CT, and Tori S. Reade of Groton, MA;
and his seven nephews and all of his
friends.
Join us to celebrate Charles ' life on
June 12 at 1:00 p.m. at the first Parish
Unitarian Church of Concord. In lieu of
flowers, contributions may be made in
his memory to The Hospice at Mission
Hill, c/o Kendall Walton, 20 Parker Hill
Ave., Boston, MA 02120. It was there
that he was lovingly cared for by his
family, friends and staff during the last
days of his life.
many AIDS patients the courage
to acquire IV and Gancyclovir
implants and take part in home
care procedures.
Lovingly missed by Mom, Pops,
Alan, Jo and Art
Dancer,48
Dan was active in the Marin
Lar Roberson, a dancer who perAIDS Project, Speakers Bureau
formed in the 1970's with the compaand Marin AIDS Int.erfaith
nies of Martha Graham, Pearl Lang
Network. He worked with Rev.
and Rod Rodgers, died on June 21 at
Janie Spahr at MCC, then
his home in Kensington, Calif. He
became active in the United
was 48.
Methodist Church of Reconcilia,
The cause was AIDS, said his comtion in San Rafael.
panion, Thomas Hibdon.
Mr. Roberson was a member 21
Dan worked hard to advance
the Graham company from 1969 to
Mar. 9, 1958 - Feb. 14, 1995
AIDS therapy through bis doc1973 · and taught at the Graham
tor's prel!elltations, encouraging
school in New York. He also apDan devoted bis life to AIDS
people to seek out every possibilipeared with Ms. Lang, who featured education and care. He irave
ty. Friend& and family bean to
him prominently in an exuberant
John Rodriguez ·
Staler ..... ..
role in "Roundelays," a work sl}.e
Dec.12, 1961- Sept, 10, 1995
June 19, 1911 - Oct. 29, 1996
created in 1977. Mr. Rodgers cast · ;"-fter a valiant eight-year struggle
Stanley Rowland passed away sudhim in 1978 in the title role of "The ~gamst the AIDS virus, John's denly
at Laguna Honda Hospilal on
Visionary." Mr. Roberson danced at indomitable spirit left this world for the
Sunday, Oct. 29, at
other times in companies headed by next one. At his side were his life pan3 a.m. He was very
Lar Lubovitch, Sophie Maslow, ner, Ted. and his mother. Irene. He is
much loved by his
ardson, Joyce Trisler and also survived by his sisters, Yolanda and
.
brother. Alexander
Larry Rich
Kathy: his brothers, David and Steve·
L. Rowland; his
Ethel Winter.
and also his stepdad. Leo.
'
mother, Janet L.
After 1980, he taught modem . John ~as ~ man of infinite compasRowland: and b)'.
dance at the Marin Ballet School in S1on and mtelligence, alway! willing to
his many friends.
help those in ~- He was a fonner
He wiU live on in
California and at San Francisco paramedic witlJ Sat\ Frarlclisco
our memories.
State University.
Ambulance Co. a VtStting Horne
Stanley's
In addition to Mr. Hibdon, he is Nurses Co.. He tndy was an
family wishes for
survived by a sister, Delores, of Her- all he encountemil in this life."angel" to
any donations to
cules, Calif., and a brother, Brian,
A memorial service wilt -be held
be sent to Family
Richmond, C&lif. 9S
Thursday, Sept. 21 , at 2 p.m. ~ M~ Link.· 317 Castro St., SF. CA 94114.
Holy Redeemer Church. 100 D1amolid Memorial services will be held. For inSt •. Sf; Donations may be
to
formation please contact Ray at 467Pro.JCCt Open Hand in his me
. T
6782. T
diatribut.e the presentations on
ll.-2, 3T-C, wasting therapy and
recaps of the Int.ernational AID8
Conferences.
In honor of my aon, I encourage everyone to be aggressive in
the care of AIDS, in the care of
each other and the aearcb for
knowledge.
Dr. David Senecbek, Dan's
doctor, bas given presentations to
the community. Copies are yours
for the asking - Knowledge Ia
Free and Powerful.
Dr. Senecbek (415) 788-4535
Dan's Mom (415) 574-3768
Jesse Reynolds
Vmcent Rossi
Nov. 4, 1944 - July 26, 1995
(aka Felipo Campo)
A precious friend, son and brother
bas joined his partner of 20 years,
Donald Wheeler.
who died on Dec.
20, 1993. Carlos is
survived by his
mother, sisrer, two
brothers and many
friends from San
and
Francisco
Palm Springs.
Carlos met bis
lifelong panner.
Don, in 1974. He
worked as a lab
assistant in the
clinical laboratory
Ill SFOH in t9n- 79 and 1989-92. From
1980 to 1988, Carlos and Don operared
a popular motel in Palm Springs.
- ~arlos wanted to acknowledge with
a lovmg "thank you" bis special family:
Kathy, Patty. Lorenzo, Joyce, Amor,
Beverly, Duggan and bis I P.M. Support
Group. An extra loving thanks to his
sister, Gladys, who was with him the
last month of bis life. Carlos said.
uWilbout their support life would not
have been worth iL Donald, open the
door please."
Carlos bas left us the joy of many
wonderful memories that he and Don
crearcd together through the years. 1n
bis final days. Carlos battled his illness
widl the strength, courage and dignity
with which he lived bis life.
Carlos bas joined his precious
Donald. Together, they are a bright star
in the galaxy. •
March 14, 1964 - July 10, 1995
"It is only with the hean that one
can see rightly." Antoine de Saint-
June 28, 1951 - Aug. 2, 1995
On Wednesday, August 2. while sur-
rounded by loving friends, the body that
housed
David's
UDdiminisbed spir-
March 17, 1952 - July 25, 1995
Jesse died from AIDS al bis borne in
Aorida at ll:30 a.m. July 25. He and
his lover Joe were
a fixture in the!
Cas1ro since 1980
when Ibey met.
They gave great
and
panics
befriended everyone. Jesse had
been a pan of the
SF scene since the
'60s and is Joved
and missed by
many. He iS survived by bis mother in LA and his
lover Joe now in Aorida.
To Jesse, From Joe: "My Baby/My
Baby/ As you die/the tear in your
eye/will be in my heart/till I join youn,y
and by/high in the sky/Good-bye/my
love/my love/my love." T
succumbed
it
without surrender
utter
the
to
of Monday, July
exhaustion caused
10, Vincent Rossi
by bis long battle
left this world. But
with AIDS. He
it was only his
was calm and
physical being that
without pain.
For
depaned.
While able,
Vincent was an
a
was
David
exceptional person
devoted, compaswho did see rightsionate caregiver
ly.
to friends with
nature's
Amidst the brilliance of
AIDS, and fmally to his beloved panglory, the floral bounty of the earth,
ner. Sonny Nolte, whose death preceded
Vincent lay swaddled in rose petals. The
David's by four months.
gentle candlelight, aroma of incense
David is survived by his mother,
and a soft Buddhist chant returned
Mrs. Helen Schwommer of Seattle,
VUICClll to the universe. His earthly
Wash. Our community has lost a
struggle was no more.
respecred banker, expert sailor, gourmet
At Vincent 's bedside were Paul
cook, accomplished gardener and aniMiller, his loving partner; brother. Jhon
Oct. 21, 1944 - Aug. 16, 1995
mal lover. Cindy and Susan, Liz and Ed.
Rossi; and friends, Laura Palowski,
Charlotte and Kerry, Jimmy and many
David passed on peacefully in bis
Brad Sherbert and Amy Miller.
others lost a wonderful friend, too many sleep after a brief struggle with AIDS.
Vincent Rossi of New York City
years too soon.
David was born
who made San Francisco home in 1990
It was David's wish that there be no
to a large farming
is survived by his parents, Fred and
and that any memorial donain
family
Madeline Rossi of Plano, Texas; sister, service
tions be made to Open Hand of
Connecticut. After
Regina; brother, Jhon; and loving fa micremation, David's
Alameda. After
graduating from
ly and friends .
with Sonny's, were scathigh school. he
behalf, heartfelt ashes, together
On Vincent'
the
rered from the deck of their boat,
joined the Army
thanks go to his caregivers: Larry Doss.
Pepper. by friends. We wish them
during the VietCindy Lee, Daphane Stewart and Cecily Chilli
nam era. When bis
smooth sailing. "'
Cosby.
tour of duty was
" ... As the foam from a wave returns
over. he returned
to become one with the ocean/so we
home to continue
return to the universeJAs the foam wi ll
education,
his
return on a new wave/we will return on
receiving a degree
a.new day." "'
in economics.
Jack C. Reed died Jan. 17 of complicationd
David traveled to Europe several
times, then trekked across the U.S.,
from AIDS in Los Angeles. He was 33.
arriving in San Francisco in 1977. He
Steve Renteria
chair of L.A. Link tobacco control,
Executive
was a jack-of-all-trades: salesman, bardied June 25 of
he participated on several boards for thei
tender, manager and caterer. He was a
fabulous chef!
complications from
state of California for AIDS education and
David was a floral designer and did
AIDS in West
prevention. As a costume designer an
the Paramount exhibit at the NAPl'E
Hollywood. He was
celebrity image consultant, clients include
Convention in New Orleans. He was
34. A native of the
also mentioned in Northern Cali~omia's
South Bay section
Anita Baker, Tina Turner, Whoopie Goldber
fltmer H_omes and Gank_ns for has work
of Los Angeles, in
and Heather Locklear. H
. lo cha .1 the Diffa Showbouse m Napa.
In addition
David was an undeniable presence
n a1993, he open ed Salon 8450.
was praised by th
Hollywood press as "L.A.'
trendiest glitzy gown design
er." He is survived by his lov
Tobia
spouse,
ing
Armstrong; mother, Doroth
Reed; and hundreds of adoring friends. "1 c
faupery
In the early hours
David G. Reinhard
e:.~-
ble adM!ies Jo, Aid Fo< AIDS,_ .,. . . hai,
of patients at hospitals and hospices. He is survived
by his mother, Sylvia; sister, lsab~ brothers,
Roland and Vince; and many friends. 7 6
0 ;,. . , . _ " " " "
and an indomitable spirit. His
ity and friendship will be cherand scnly missed by everyone
who knew and loved him. Vaya coo
Dios querido ! "'
By DANA BISBEE
His popula r Boston Globe col-
umn tweake d the upturn ed n?ses
of social nabob s and prov1 d~
( )
valuab le public ity for nonpro fit
organi zation s.
His sartor ial splend or earned
him places on the Hub's "Best
Dresse d" and .isexie st Men"
lists.
Boston Globe columnist Jo hn
ed upon nim tor their coverage.
He was a true hon vivant, with a
great zest for life. He broug ht
much excite ment, friend ship and
JOHN ROBINSON
love to those around him."
Dale 11,zak
In sparkl ing langua ge, he
Jan. 27, 1957 - Oct. 11, 1995
wrote of "capta ins of indust ry,"
Dale passed peacefully from us at
home and is on his way to a better place. "nobs, " "poten tates" "toffs" and
He was a quiet "grand ees" of Boston society .
man with a loving,
Robins on relishe d detail of
caring heart.
the scenes he report ed. His ey
Dale loved might be attrac ted
by a "scandaphotography. the
outdoors , spending
time in his garden
and
watchin g
Erica Kane. He
once said, " H he
gave me nothing
else, be gave me a
little soul." Once a
reference to music.
it grew more to
mean the way he touched those who
knew him.
Dale leaves behind his lover of 15
years, Randy Petersen; his sister,
Margo; sisrers-in-law, Margaret and
Gloria; nieces, Marina and Salina; father, Frank; and brothers, Frank and
John.
rd lie to thank our families and
our extended family of close friends,
co-workers and teammares for being so
suppodive.
His spirit has been set free, but his
soul will always be with us. I'll love
him forever.
A gathering of friends will be held
Saturday, Oct. 21. T
.,.. .......
1914-1 995
1;-11
Bruce Reader was born in Ohio and
died at home in 1be City on Monday,
October 16, from AIDS complications:
Bruce was an accomplished musician. skilled technical writer and generous volunteer. Between 1975 and 1979,
he was first chair-bassoon with the
Grazer Philharmonisches Orchest er,
Austria: his colleagues at the time included Mesdam es Birgit Nilsson,
Montserrat Caballe and Rossini tenor
Rocky Blake. He returned to America in
1979 and worked as a technical writer
with Crum and Forster and Tesserac t
corporations.
After his retirement, Bruce volunteered with PAWS and generou sly with
Youth Chance High. where he was a
tutor to inner-city youths. He was a patron of the San Francisco Opera. Symphony. Ballet and American Conservatory Theater.
.
He is survived by his beloved parents. George and Marybell; his loving
brothers. David, Larry and Mark; and
by his longtime compan ion of 15 years.
Frank Michael Yhap.
.
At Bruce's request, no . me_mon~
service will take place. Contnbuuons m
his honor may be made to the Youth
Chance Alternative High School, Embarcadero YMCA. Attn. Ms. Liz Loyola
Robins on 49, died yester day
morni ng 'at Marth a's Vineya rd
Hospi tal of a pulmo nary embo
lism and Kapos i' sarcom a.
compl ication of AID ' .
He had been living in Oak
Bluffs , in the home he had built
there last year.
"John had a great love for
Boston ," said his devote d friend
Doris Yaffe. "So many of the
nonprofit organi zation s depend lou ly rich white chocol ate and
raspberry Bavarian" desser t and
the "insou ciance " it would bring
to a Four Season s table.
Or he might be diverte d by a
woma n's "socia l appea rance
flecked with jewels and swath ed
in the design er frocks she wears
so effortl essly."
His colum ns, most ending with
Tum to Page 135
reau from 1985 to 1990, he was
·
a "Night cap:" paragr aph of most associated with his byline
some passin g gossip or social an- at the top of a social column.
He denied that his work wa~
nounc ement , somet imes outraged those whose vanity was a gossip column. It was instead
caugh t outpac ing their commo n observ ations about society in the
sense of sociology, a study of the
sense.
rich and famou s of a city he ofBut they were also impor tant
to nonpro fit fund-r aisers, who ten called "the provin cial capital."
valued the shot of public ity
''John disting uished himsel f
when featur ed in Robin on's
at lhe Globe both as an editor
popula r column.
and a writer
Horn in Boston on Aug. 4, Matt Storin ," said Globe Editor
.
1945, he attend ed Natick High
"He had a roarin g lau.gh," reSchool, where he played footba ll
and was state champ ion in the memb ered colleag ue Jack Tho·mas, "and the world is going ti
100-ya rd dash.
He also attend ed Mount Her- be a quiete r place now."
The son of the late Helen
mon School and the Unive rsitv
of Massa chuset ts in Amhe r t, Louise Vivere tte Robins on an
the late John M. Robins on, he ii,;
gradua ting in 1968.
urvive d by a sister, Jacque line
He went to work at the Globe
Michelle of New Jersey , and a
upon gradua tion.
brothe r, Paul of Orlean s .
"He had one emplo yer his enHe will be buried at a gravetire workin g life,"
aid hi
ide service at the Oak Grov(
brothe r Paul Robinson . "Exce pt
for a short stint as an officer in Ceme tery in Oak Bluff s
the U.S. Navy (1970 to 1972), he Marth a's Vineya rd on Thursd a~
at 2 p.m.
worked only for the Globe."
"Some time in the fall, he
Robinson worked his way up wanted a
memo rial recept ion a
the ranks from genera l assign - the St.
Botolph Club," his brothment report er. He worked on the er said.
editori al page from 1975 to 1979,
In lieu of flowers, donati on~
when he becam e assista nt busi- may be
sent to the John A. Robness editor.
inson Memo rial Fund, care ot
In 19 2, he began writin g a the Boys
and Girls Clubs of
social column. Excep t for a stint Greate r
Boston, 50 Congr ess SL
in the Globe' s Wa hingto n bu- Bo ton, MA
02109. D
l From Page 9
GOP
ACTIVIST JoHN
DIES OF AIDS
Rico
OLYMPIA, Wash. (GayN et) - John Rico, an openly
gay Repub lican Party official. has died ofATOS. He was 4'1
years of age at the time of his death.
Rico served as political directo r of the California GOP.
ran Ronald Reagan·s pre idential campa ign office. in Los
Angele s in 1979, and after movin g to Orego n. served a
chief of staff to the state senate from 1985 to 1991. He also
served on Orego n Gov. Booth Gardner"s HTV/ ATOS
Advisory Council.
J J. - 5' -q .{'
James W. Rookwell, !7
E. Timothy RobertsofBoston'sSo uth
End died peacefully at his home on July
13 surrounded by loving friends and
family.
Timothy entered this world May 3,
1954, in Eden, North Carolina, the
youngest of six children. He graduated
from Morehead High School in Eden
and moved to New England in 1972 to
study photography at Franconia College in New Hampshire.
During his school years he spent his
summers in Ogunquit, Maine, where he
worked as a waiter and later as restaurant managerof the Fan Club. He moved
to Boston in 1976 and managed the Fan
Club in Boston's theater district. For
several years he was employed at Edward Harvey on School Street as a salesman of leather goods (the luggage variety). He also worked at the Copley
Marriott Hotel and as a VIP waiter at the
Four Season's Aujour D'Hui.
He spent many summers in his beloved Provincetown, where he worked
at several restaurants including the
Boatslip, the Front Porch and the Painted
Lady.
Provincetown ' s natural beauty provided him with inspiration and a passion for life. His creative abilities manifested themselves through his love for
gardening and for transforming his cottage into an idyllic home to share with
his lover, Stephen Clark.
Following his diagnosis of HIV infection in 1985, Tim became a seeker of
knowledge, and a bearer of inspiration
for those trying to make sense of life in
the face of HIV and AIDS. When Northern Lights Alternatives New England
was founded in 1990, Tim volunteered
as Enrollment Coordinator for the AIDS
Mastery Workshop, bringing the workshop and support to many people in
need of comfort and community. Even
in the face of his own declining health,
Tim devotedly provided round-theclock care to Stephen until Stephen's
death in March, 1994.
Auto parts solesmaJ
re:;
'IS
Tim's large and diverse community
of friends and lovers will miss his engaging charms, his dry and subtle wit,
his brutal honesty, his intuitiveness and
insight into other people's feelings, and
his bright blue eyes that always spoke
of the love and caring of .a true friend.
Timothy is survived by his devoted
and gracious mother, Evelyn; brothers
Buddy, Bryant and Joe, all of North
Carolina; his loving sisters, Tanya and
Iva; cousin Mary Ann Morgan, as well
as many other family members and old
friends. His oldest and dearest friend,
Evan Mahaney; Evan ' s lover, Gil; and
deeply loving friends, Gary Flaherty
and Suzanne Badoux, among others,
coordinated Tim's care and enjoyed his
relentless and challenging humor until
the end.
A graveside service is planned for
July 20 in Eden, North Carolina. A
private ceremony will also be held in
Rutland, Vermont, where Timothy ' s
ashes will join Stephen Clark's. A celebration of Tim's life for all who were
touched by it, will be held on Saturday,
August 19 at 3 p.m. at the Unitarian
Universalist Church in Provincetown.
In lieu of flowers, donations can be
made in Tim's memory to the Boston
Living Center.
Jose Rodriquez
Jose Rodriquez of Quincy, formerly
of Boston, died May 23 at Healthcare
Dimensions in Mission Hill from complications of an AIDS-related illness. He
was 38.
Jose was born in El Salvador and came
to the United States several years ago.
He was employed by Baystate Bindery
Company in Boston before his illness.
4'"
·
James w. i(j~~rwellesley,
sal man at Consumer Auto Parts
~ N:ck, died of lympho~
day in New England Medical
in Boston. He was 27. bo . FramMr Rockwell was rn m
ingha~ and earned his Ge;:~~
Equivalency ?iplo~ at ~ e
nieal Sehool m Franung Willis R
·
He leaves his parents,
.cia (Leach) of Wellesley;
and Patri sisters, Bever\A.and
y
and three
Dawn M. Nascinemto, both of ~ f
Melissa J. Par
·
mgham ' and
will be said at 10
Wellesley.
A funeral Mass
a.m. Saturday in St. John the Ev9:11list Church in Wellesley. B~
~ be in St. Mary's Cemetery m
He leaves several relatives in El Salvador and a close friend, Richard Legere
of Quincy.
A memorial Mass will be celebrated
at the Jesuit Urban Center, 775 Harrison
Ave. , ata later date. Donations in Jose' s
memory may be made to Healthcare
Dimensions, 20 Parker Hill Ave. , Boston , MA 02120.
Needham.
Ann Marie Rode), 28
Worked to raise AIDS awareness
I-,._.;,. ... 9.S
A memorial service will be hela
tomorrow for Ann Marie Rode), a
Brockton resident and AIDS activist
who died at her home Saturday from
complications . associated with the
disease she fought to stamp out. She
was 28.
Miss Rodel was born and raised
in Brockton, graduating from Brockton High School in 1986.
She was an avid horseback rider
and a member of the AIDS Action
Committee, where she worked to
raise the public's awareness of
AIDS.
She leaves her parents, Kenneth
and Dorothy (Chilson) of Brockton;
two brothers, Kenneth Jr. and
'James both of Brockton; her two
grandmothers, Anne Marie Rode) of
Nevada and Anna Marie (Hamilton)
Chilson; and several aunts and uncles.
The memorial service will be held
'in St. Edward's Church in Brockton
at 9 a.m. Cremation will be in the
Woodlawn North Purchase Crematory in Attleboro.
Bob Ru~II died Jun~ 19 of l~ng cancer at the City
ofHope in Duarte, Calif. Anative of Quincy, Mass.,
~nd a U.S. Army veteran, he moved to Los Angeles
1n ~~ eartx 1960s and began working for Security
Pac1f1c National Bank. When Security Pacific was
acquired by Bank of America, Russell became
senior vice president of corporate real estate. A
cooking and travel aficionado, he retired from the /
ban~ing institution in 1993. Russell is predeceased
by his partner of 30 years, Jim Herman. He is survived by his mother, Helen D. Listman, brother,
John D. Russell,;. and numerous friends and col?IC'J
leagues.
)
..............
Feb, 7, 1941 - - · 17, 1991
A native of Ann Arbor, Mich., Doug
came to San Francisco with his l~ngtime companio n,
George Seefeld, in
1981.
Together
they owned and
operated
The
Company, a popular bar on California Street, for a
number of yean.
After selling 'The
Company. Doug
Ellis Rigsby danced his way into our worlds.
)11 always be a part of our celebration of life.
emembe r Ellis as a waiter at Mick's or a
....... ·ence student at Devry. Our chapter starts in
...... !f~s-Su nday T-Dances at the Parade Disco,
fi.;iqe!j t Menefee 's, and all points in between . Ellis
·\t·•, 'us to world we never knew existed- and we
· · ·' ped dancing yet
ved to Atlanta in 1987 in pursuit of a career
educatio n in the field of compute r science. His
· these pursuits were a dream come true for
eer ultimately led him to Charlotte, North
ere he lived his life fully until the very encl
ving lost his eyesight, he never lost the will to
ways be an inspirati on to us and we are
. ughter he shared with us.
~ a n d operated Great Earth
Vitamin Stores on
both Polit and Castro SIS.
Doug was a hugely talented garden-
i
/~ -J~~. .I
.,,,.. ,:,. .;[itton Mangham, and two of the gayest straight
.·7ttliihtii.'f0tr raised, Mark Thompson and John Mangham
er and decorator. though he did not pur-
sue either professionally. His many
friends- will fondly remember the fabulous Christmas display he produced
year after year. Doug served on ~e
board of directors of the Commuruty
Thrift Store as treasurer for six yean.
He donated many, many volunteer ,
hours in the store.
.
/,;l- /"/-? f
Doug will be remi:mbere~ with
Samuel D. - Ratcliffe , an Emmygreat affection by . all bis f~1ly and
friends. He is survived by his mother, winning scriptwr iter, died yesterda y
Agnes; two sisters; one brother; and at his home in Manhattan. H~ was 5~.
The cause was AIDS, said David
several nieces and nephews. -.,
,
Samuel D. Ratcliffe,
TV Scriptwriter, 50
Chad Rail
December 27, 19&6- May 13, 19%
On Monday,
May 13,Chad's
struggle with AIDS
ended peacefully.
His partner of 10
years and his mother were at his side.
Chad faced his
growing disability
with courage and
wit, much as he
faced the rest of his life.
Chad was born in Portland on December 27, 1966. He left home at a
young age, spending time in Seattle,
Sacramento and San Francisco. During
this unsettled time he survived by the
assistance of his family, friends and
inner strength.
Chad settled in Seattle in 1985. A
year later he met Ken Baggett. The two
shared a love and respect for each other
that grew with.each day. The, liwd five
years Clb~-1
lbln,baught van
and tllMled the country to see what
they could see - and to ride roller
coasters, one of Chad's great loves.
They traveled the country for ~ee
years and settled in the most beautiful
place they'd seen, San Francisco. Chad
had been here for three years when his
final illness struck. He died at home,
surrounde d by love.
Chad is survived by his parents, loving aunts, their children, his grandparents, his partner. and his cat.
Ziff, a friend.
.
Mr. Ratcliffe won the E~my m
1991 for his work as head wnte~, for
the NBC series " Santa _ arbara. ~e
B
also served as chief wnter for NBC s
"Texas" and " Anotl).er World."
A native of Winter Haven, Fla., he
grew up in Birming ham, Ala., and
graduate d from Birmingha~-Sout~em College, where he ma1ored . m
music an<l in German. After movmg
to New York City, he pursued a
career in the theater. One o_f his .~oles
was Matt in "The Fantast1cks.
He later began to write for ~aytime televisiop . His credit~ at .~BC
included "Days of Our Lives. He
also wrote for CBS's "Capitol" and
" Guiding Light" and ABC's " Loving."
.
He is survived by his companion,
Jeffrey. Hayenga : his parent~, Jennings and Marguer ite ~atchffe of
New Orleans, and thrE:e sisters, Sandra of Manhatt ant Rebecca, of. Atlanta, and Karen Daigle of New Orleans.
Walter Frank Rowen
./1111r 29, 1945 - Od,,!1t:r 8, /995
A truly unique
person, capable of
tou c hing so many
lives in many different
ways, and always able
to tea c h ev e ryone
somethin g new that was Walter. He
passed away peacefully on Sunday. October 8, due to
complications from AIDS.
To the delight of his friends
and clients, there was a bit of Mark
Twain in Walter. He led a foll and
varied life, always striving to push
things to their limit. By age 20 he
had traveled the world, and always
delighted in relating the incredible
tales of his adventure s.
He served as an oHicer in the
Army. then established a successfu l
marketing communic ations career
in New York and Philadelph ia. In
1980 he moved to San Francisco,
and eventually started his own public relations firm, RCl-even managing to earn canonization as a Saint
RAY -01 -3ath , NH, John David, 42, ol Main
Street, ied at his h ome , Au gust 12. ~ 996
after an exten ded illness . He1 was
born ,n Boston MA. May 24, 1954
.. the son of W1ll 1am A an t1,rg1n~a
~ . : L (Perkins) Rav. a, d ha~ lived ,n
•
Dorchester . MA until mov1n9 to
Bath nine years ago Mr. Ray owned anef op
erated the Evergreen Bed a nd Bre~kfast 1n
r --•
Bath for the past nine years. Mr Ray had
w~:~%~~b~~~rare 'R,o7tt1!1tt?n~~y
t~~~~d
Cou ncil in Littleton, NH. He had sj1rved in
th e U.$ . N avy d !-Jring th e V i'!'tna,:n War. Surviv o r s inc lude his n:LOtt"1er. ~irg1rna L Ray of
Hull, MA; two sistersh Virg1rnar . Rsli( ~'Aull ,
~!:
.w~~:
~ ~ nb
~o~h'!.'):. 1=cl'!;[fl8J o~~r;f
mouth, MA, William L. Ray of N ew B erhn ,
W S . His companion Thomas Kod~ of Bath,
NH . Al so sev era l nieces, n ephe"i&. a,unts,
u n c les and cousins Calhng h ou,';; will be
W edn esday , Au gust 14. 1996 a t t,.•!'l Bath,
NH Congre g ational Ch u rch from i,oo to
4 :00 p .m. a ni:I 7 :00 to 9 :0 0 p .m. Funeral services w ill b e Thursday, August 15 ,- 1~6 at
1 :00 p .m in the churc h . T he R<:v Mhur
Chen ee , p astor officiatinfl . Burial will follow
~d:;,"e, ~\~c ~ il~ 9'"e.c XBb'f:i'~v\rE~e,ftl/~ :r~
c h arge o f arran gements .
by the Sisters of Perpetua I Indulgenc e
along the way.
A real master at
motivatin g diverse
groups of people toward common action,
Walter was always
able to make an impact through his own unique blend
of tradition and innovation , combined with impeccable taste, intelligence, professionalism and an irreverent sense of humor. Oass and elegance shone through in everything
he did . And whatever project he set
his mind to, he always managed to
make it f,z/111/,,11,,/y entertainin g.
Plans will be made soon for a
cocktail gathering to celebrate
Walter's life and share our stories
and memories of him. Anyone who
would like to participate may leave
a message at 510/654-4480 with their
name, address and phone number.
His friendship and unfaltering sup~rt will be greatly missed.
kHODE-O f QulnfeY, MA, August 9, 1996,
Daniel J . Rh ode , 34, resident of the Quincy
~6~'
~?;
Wi~~
~,r'~?;f r : t ~ e~r~R1·f
sa (lfnlg~\) Rhode of Quincy, MA. Brother of
Otto, Jr. and his w ife Kathleen Rhode of
1
~'F.'t,'dtea~~ l~a~~eR ~~~:.l
o f Quincy, MA, Eileen and her husband Robert Godfrey of Nashua, NH , Bernadette and
h er husband S c ott Broome of Laguna HHls,
CA, Ellen and her com ~nion Karen of Lun :g~ui~lli~ t·ro~~!e oft .:~r:::· HYil;::1
st<;e"'.f;:
son and Jessica Godfrey of Nashua, NH,
Kate and John· Iacobucci of Hudson, MA,
Jacquelyn and Matthew Rhode of Quincy,
MA. In l ieu of llowersh memorial contributions may be made to t e AIDS Action Community. Funeral arrangeme nts are entrusted
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By ELAINE LOUIE
Juan E~gene Ramos, an art director and the creative partner of Antonio Lopez, the late fashion Illustrator, 'died on Thursday at his home In
Manhattan. He was 53.
The cause was AIDS, said his companion, Paul Caranlcas.
In 197S
Danny bought a
With Mr. Lopez, who died In 1987,
small farm on a mountaintop near
Mr. Ramos conceptualized fashion
Compache, Calif., and soon goat cheese
Illustrations and advertising camfrom Skyrancb Road was served in the
paigns that were published In Vogue,
finest restaurants in Northern CaliforHarper's Bazaar and The New York
nia. He was also tireless in bis work
Times, IUld were later seen In mu~
with ACCESS and served on the AIDS
seuma around the world.
suppon organization's board for seven
They collaborated on the concept
years.
Juan Eugene Ramos
Danny's lush baritone graced the
and everything else: selection of the
Mendocino Troubadours, Gloriana
model, the clothes and the props. Mr.
Opera Co. productions, Baroque Arts
Ramos chose every color down to denly, a Missoni sweater had tiomeEnsemble of San Francisco, elC. He also
the sha4e of red on a man's lips. The thing to do with spirit and expresdirected the Gloriana Christmas Carol·
draw. sionism. The eyeglasses were askew,
only thing he did not do was
ers and created the Comptche V-.Uage
and the
Among the team's discoveries were the building was caving in,
Singers.
hands were contorted expressionist
Tina Ctaow, Jerry Hall and Grace
Danny is survived by his mother,
hands."
Helen; brother, Bob; and nephews, GraJones. •
The partners, who both studied at
ham and Andrew. A memorial celebraIn the 1980's, Mr. Ramos and Mr.
tion and potluck will be held Sunday,
Lopez depicted women collfed In Le- . the Fashion Institute of Technology,
Jan. 14, at 2 p.m. at the Mendocino
afterward taught fashion illustration
ger-Inspired cascades of hair and
Presbyterian Church. For more infordressed In micro-minis. They some- there as well as at a school in the
mation call Sam Waldman (707) 937Dominican Republic.
times put sexy riten and women on
1424 or Rosalie Gjerde at (707) 964Mr. Caranlcas, Mr. Ra·
Besides
motorcycles, borrowing imagery
4338.
mos is survived by his mother, Merfrom the film "Easy Rider."
cedes Negron, and his sister, Sonia
Richard Martin, curator of the
Ral1\0S.
Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, said, "Juan was
the art director to Antonio - but not
after the fact - and everything that
emerged, emerged from them toJohn Rible died Oct. 7, 1995 at the
~ther."
Describing their work, Mr. Martin age of 36.
said: "Take a Mlssoni sweater, a
Born and raised in New Jersey, he
badge of the rich bour~eolsie. Sud- lived in Florida, Texas and California
1111181 - l e
before coming to Boston and making
'IH0-1911
his home in Dorchester for the last nine
Born in Chile of Middle Eastyears . John worked as a paralegal for
ern ancestry, high school at McAseveral Boston firms. Although John
teer in San
always enjoyed his vacations on
Francisco, fein
and
Vineyard
Martha's
male iinpersonProvincetown , he was most happy at
ator at Finochome where he enjoyed his hobbies of
chio's, claims
gardening and cooking . Neighborhoo d
clerk at CSE InCo.,
surance
residents would always take pleasure in
tailor for a Taste
the visual results of his gardening.
Leather,
of
Friends and neighbors will also rememMedi-Cal clerk
ber being treated to the gourmet dishes
at Wall Medical
he prepared. Elderly neighbors will reGroup, costume
member his kind words and concern for
whipper-uppe r extraordinair e,
them. All who knew John will miss his
Mack sex club owner, graphics
sense of humor.
designer, upholsterer, pot smoker
John will also be missed by his ani- Yusef was all of these and more.
He was a good friend to those
mal friends: his and his best friend's
who really knew him. He was
two cats , Tina and Tush and their three
only tolerant of others.
Golden Retrievers, Maggie, Wolfgang
Yusef was planning to finally
go home to Chile to be with his
mother and sisters when he unexpectedly fell ill. He passed two
days befCR be was to leave, never
LL- P-ts
JohnR ible
fulfiDing that final dream.
So long. our dear friend; we
will tniss you. 'Y
,pf
Brian C. Reilly
Timothy Joe
ReMine. 34, died
of AIDS related
complications at
his home in Bristol, Virginia on
Friday. March
15, I 996, according to his good
friend, Richard
Holloway of
Landover HilJs,
Maryland.
ReMine was born in Abingdon, Va., on
Jan. 13, 1962, where he grew up. He
moved to Washington, D.C. in 198 l,
when he began a part-time office job at
the bar Exile while learning computer
skills at the Computer Learning Center in
Northern Virginia.
Io I 983, ReMine began working as a
c~mputer propammer for a computer
finn in Roslyn. VL e WOll:ed there until
his retirement in 1993, HeHoway said.
ReMine enjoyed cooking in his spare
time, and vacationing with friends every
September in Rehoboth Beach, Del. He
also enjoyed watching professional hockey games, Ho~!l)' said.
He was predeceased by his companion
and caregiver Roy Michael Williams.
ReMint is survived by his parents.
Wayne and Margaret ReMine of Abing,don; sisters, · Martha McCalep of White
;t.aftes, Mich., and Sharon Edwards of
Wadesboro. N.C.; brother, Bobby ReMine of Memphis, Tenn.; grandmothers,
Mattie C. ReMine of Meadowview, Va.,
and Nell Hagy· of Abingdon, Va.; and a
niece, three-ilepbews, and many friends.
A memoial service was held in
Abingdon oai March 16. Contributions
may be m.Se to the American Foundation for Aids Research, 733 Third Avenue, 12th Floor. New York, NY 10017.
Michael Rudisill
May 4, 1960- June 14, 1996
Michael was a
shooting star who
burned too hot and
fast to stay around
for long. In his
flight through our
lives, he both
brightened our
paths and scorched
what felt too dose.
He lived with HIV
but died with his addiction. Michael
OD'd on June 14. Whatever it was that
Michael fought 50 hard finally conquered
him when his guard was down.
A lot of us loved Michael very
deeply, and his loss hurts our hearts. His
50ulmate, Freddy Calif, touched
Michael's life and being in a way that 50
few of us were ever able. We will love
and miss Michael.
Join us for a memorial service at
1594 Market St. on Sunday, Sept. 29, at
5 p.m. Bring candles.
Brian Reilly, 47, a talented artist and
historian died Nov. 21 at his parents '
home in Virginia die to complications
from AIDS.
Brian was born in New York City,
attended Beverly High School and, for
many years, resided in Boston. He received a degree in Fine Arts from Massachusetts College of Art and a degree
in Library Sciences from Emerson College. He enjoyed working at the Access
Center and Film Dept. of the Boston
Public Library for many years.
He was active in and often led an
AIDS support group.
Brian collected friends everywhere.
He was noted for his wonderful sense
of humor, intelligence, warmth and
grace. Brian lived life intensely. In a
final meeting with a friend, he shared
thi s: " I've had the best life that anyone
could hope to have. I've experienced
what most people could only wish for in
three lifetimes!" He lived his life as
art-always sensitive to beauty.
An avid gardener, he spent many happy
hours cultivating a lovely garden in the
South End of Boston. Mrs. Beatrice
Palmer of Groton , MA, a noted breeder
of daylilies, is registering a new seedling plant to be named in his memory.
He leaves his father, John ; his mothe~.
Elizabeth; sister Kerry Clark of Lynn;
brother Kevin of Jamaica Plain; his dear
nephew Drew and his constant companion , Joan Carriere.
Contributions in his memory can be
made to the Salvation Army and the
Ryan White fund .
A memorial service is planned for
mid-January . 9'.S
Lou Ressijac
Loui s Howard Re ij ac, 45, died on
Nov. 27 at Georgetown University Hospital of AIDS -related complications.
LouwasborninAyero nOct. 11 ,1950.
After traveling with his Army family ,
he returned to Massachusetts and Ayer
High School, graduating in 1968 as class
valedictorian. He attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on a
scholar hip and graduated fro m Boston
University. After living in Cambridge,
Ressijac moved in 1976 to Washington
D.C .. working as an independent computer consultant. fo r area corporations.
He had intended to return to Boston this
winter to the St. Botolph neighborhood.
Lou achieved the second degree black
belt in the martial art of Aikido . This
was his passion, until 1987 when he was
barred from practice by his colleagues
due to his HI V-positive status. He was
later instrumental in changing that
policy.
An avid reader with over l 0,000 books
ranging from metaphy sics to science
fiction, Ressijac was also the author of
Philharmonic, a biography which paid
tribute to his former Jover. Lou enjoyed
Sondheim musicals, Far East dining,
and camping in the mountains of Pennsylvania. He will be remembered as an
intellectual with a benign sense of humor, an affectionate nature, a keen wit,
and the ability to make those close to
him feel loved and cared for.
qs
He is survived by his partner, Gary
Stone of Boston ; mother, Marjorie
Ressijac; sister, Ann Ressijac; brother
Richard Ressijac; in-laws Charles Dillon
and Cynthia Ressijac; and four nieces,
all of Ayer; and dear friends Cynthia
Tootle, Ken Stailey, both of Silver
Spring, MD, Wells Eddleman of
Durham, NC, and Charles Merrill and
Taiji Saotome, both of Cambridge.
His remains were cremated. Remembrances may be made to the Boston
Living Center, 29 Stanhope St., Boston,
MA 02116.
The People With
AID S Coalition of
New York mourns
the death of one of
its founding boa rd
mem bers ,
Mic hael C.P. Ryan.
Michael's commitmen t to the gay and
lesbian community
and to people living
with AIDS and mv
provides a lasting
example of leadership and integrity,
passion and grac e.
His subtle wit and
extraordinary spirit
will be miss ed by
all who se lives
he touched. Our
condolences to his
life partner, Edg ard
Paredes, the Ryan
family and his man y
friends.
RYAN-M k:hoet CP. o low firm
l>Ortner and gay activist, died
peocefullv on Fridov. Novemb er J,
199S of complications related to
AIDS. He was thirty-nine and lived
in New York Cltv. Mr. Rvon was
b_om in o loxicob in New York City
on Jonuarv 1S, 1956. He received
his BSFS from The School Of
ForeiOn service of Georoetown
Universi ty in 1978 and his J.D. and
MA. In Latin America n studies
from Stanford Universi ty in 1982,
where he was on editor of The
Stanford Low Sehool Low Review
and President of The Goy Low
Students Association. Upon graduation from Stanford. Mr. Ryon
lived In Rio de Janeiro, Brazil,
Where he was ossoeioted with
Escrltori o de Advococio Jose Nobuco. Returning to New York City,
he worked at the low firm 9f
Curtis, Mollet-Prevost. Colt and
Mosle and Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, SDeCiolizlng In the areas of
banking, securities ond proJed
finance. He become o member of
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher In 1989.
Mr. Rvoo served on the New York
State Judicial screening Panel in
1990. In 1991, Mr. Rvoo co-chaired
" lnviSlble Dlversilv: ' the first gay
and lesbian forum to involve corporate participants In a dlalooue
regarding wor1<Ploce diversify. In
1992. he received the Public servant Award from The Lesbian and
Gov Low Association of Greater
New York. Mr. Rvan served on
the Board of Governors of !he
Human RIOhts Compaign (HRC),
and on the Boards Of Diredors Of
The L egal Aid Society, the People
with AIDS Coalition Of New York
(PWAC·NY), The Stonewall Community Foundation & the Empire
State Pride Agenda. He raised
funds for various POlilical com·
POions ond contributed g-rous lv
10 manv causes. Throuohout his
Ill e, Mr. Rvon promote d the equal
treatmen t of gays and lesbians In
the workplace ond the commun ity
at large and worked llrefessly for
social 1ust1ce. Mr. Ryon is survived
bv his companion, Edoord H.
Paredes. his parents. Ellzabelh
ond WIiiiam Ryon, sisters Marv
Eleonor Griffin and Therese-Marv
Ryan, brothers Joseph and Daniel
Ryan, niece Maroaret Griffin and
nel)hew Shown Griffin, and a wide
circle of friends in New York City,
Washington. D .C. ond elsewhere,
all of wham wlll miss Mr. Ryan's
o-roslt v of spirit and wil.
In lieu of flowers, it Is reouested
that contributions In Mr. Rvan's
nome be made to PWAC-NY or
the Empire State Pride Agenda.
in May of 1995
Michael with fellow board member Emily Rosenthal
John E. Radley
ALBANY - John E. Radley died at"
Albany Medical Center Tuesday,
October 13, 1998. Reknowned
wai~r. remembered for his years of
service at the Golde n Fox, Stone
Ends, The 21 Club, Yonos, and
Stephanie's on the Park, in addition
to other restaurants. John leaves '
behind many dear friends, as well
as his sister, Elizabeth Gile-Radley,
and three brothers, Kenneth, Donald. and Ronald. He was well loved
and will be dearly missed.
r
Frederick P. Ro ck ta sh el
.
~
Fredefrick P. Rocktashel,
49, of Philadelphia, died Dec.
31, 1995, at Gradu ate Hospital of complications due to
AIDS.
Known as "Rocky"by many
his friends Rocktashel was
of
born in Reading, a son of the
late Georg e and Eva
Rocktashel.
Hewas agradu ateofR eading Centra l Cathol ic High
Schoo l and St. Charl es
Borro meo Semin ary in
Overbrook, where he received
a bachelor's degree in philoso-
..., ........
I
May 28, 1919 - Jan. 21, 1891
A_ndy departed Ibis life early on the
monung of Jan. 25. The end to his
lengthy battle with
AIDS came while
he was at home
his dear
with
friend, Michael,
next to him.
Andy was a
creative and prolific painter and
poet. He was born
Charlesto n,
in
Miss. He moved to
San Francisco in
1989 after completing his bachelor's and master's in art at the University of Mississippi. Andy's seemingl y
outrageou s nature combined with his
Southern gentlema nly charm made indelible marks on the hearts of those who
became his friends and loved ones here
in the Bay Area.
~is art was collected by many people m the South and here in the Bay
Area. Example s of his work were published as far away as Japan.
. ~ is survived by his parents,
Junrrue and Jane Roberson; two sisters,
Amy Berry and Becky Pettigrew; one
brother, Marshall Roberson ; and his
grandmot her, Clarice Roberson, all of
Mississippi.
Donation s may be made to Project
Open Hand, Visual Aid of San Francisco, or the Andy Roberson Memoria l
Schol~ p. University of Mississip pi
Foundatio n, P.O. Box 249, University
MS386n . Y
)
'
phy.H ealsos erved" :ltheU .S.
Air Force, attaini ng the ~ank
of captain, and, as a certified
pilot, partic ipated in the
evacuation of Saigon during
the last days of the Vietna m
War.
After leaving the service,
Rocktashel worked in Africa
for the Catholic Relief Services. Later employment ineluded General Public {!tilities in Reading, and as d1rector of the Unive rsity of
Pennsylvania's accounts pay-
able depart ment, _workin g
there from 1986 until the sum.
mer of 1995. .
Rocktashel lS survived by
his companion of 12 years,
Paul Nutailis; two brothers
and two sisters.
Privat e services were held
Jan. 6 at Gethsemane Cemetery in Laureldale.
Memo rial contri buti?n s
~ay_be made_to any_orgamzabonmv olvedm servmg people
with AIDS or those who care
for them. T
Elie zer Rod rigu ez Ros ado
Eliezer Rodriguez Rosado died comfortably on December 23, 1995 from
respiratory failure.
He was born in Puerto Rico in 1953,
and in 1988 he came to Boston and
applied to Simmo ns College in order to
pursue his interest in library work. He
graduated in 1991 with a Master 's Degree in Library and Information sc·ience.
After graduation, Elio established and
organized the libraries at the Mauricio
Gaston Institute at the University of
Massachusetts, and the Hispanic Office
of Planning and Evaluation. In Novem ber of 1993, he was offered the position
of Resource Specialist at The Medical
Foundation in Boston . He organized
the Resource Library , which primarily
serves the Prevention Center' s trainers
and staff, but also teachers, social workers, health professionals, and the general public. He refused to yield to health
difficulties, and continued to work until
the day before he was admitted to the
New England Medical Center for the
final time. Attention to detail , both in
work and his relation ships, probably
was his principal concern, but other
interests were sewing, photogr aphy,
reading, watching "I Love Lucy" reruns, and especially, cooking for others
and hosting dinner parties. Mozart was
his favorite composer, and Maria Callas, whose recordings were the last thing
he asked to hear before he died, was hi s
passion. He also enjoyed traveling, and
a special memory for him was taking
his mother and sister to New York City
for the first time during their visit in
October.
He spent his last week at home in the
compan y of his lover, Richard Vallone,
his lover's family , his cherish ed friends
Sylvett e "Cuqui " Betanco urt, Kyrsis
Rodriguez, Beatriz McConnie, and Silja
Kallenb ach, and most importa ntly his
Pekinge se, Lionka . He is survived by
his mother, Eva Rosado; sisters Nilda,
Mina, and Lydia; brother Victor; and his
close nephew and nieces Peter, Nildita,
and Loreen .
He was cremate d on Dec. 28, and will
be interred in his beloved Mt. Auburn
Cemete ry during a service of remembrance and music there on Feb. 3 at lO
a.m.
Donations may be made in Elio' s name
to the Fenway Commu nity Health Center: 7 Haviland St., Boston , MA 02115.
.....................
Stanley Alan Rawlings died Dec. 16 of
complications from AIDS in Hollywood. He
was 42. A native of Canada, he was one of
the original volunteers of the Gay Men's
Health Crisis in New York City; a co-founder
of PAWS Los Angeles, he was also an APLA
phone buddy, a Shanti volunteer, and a
member of the AIDS Mastery Foundation.
He is survived by his lover of more than si
years, Mark Saffer; his parents, Tom an
Glenora Rawlings; three brothers, David
Paul and Steve; sister, Barbara; his dog
Chip; and many close friends. q . f
July 4, 1940 - Jan. 23, 1996
John Michael left us last month after
a long and courageous battle with
AIDS. JM passed
quietly and peacefully in the home
that be loved and
shared with bis
dear friends, Dick
Wtntcb and Denin
Toigo,
nis
City,
Cathedral
Calif.
John Michael
bas ftnally reached
the place of true
harmony that he
always told us existed. B~dcs bis bousemates, be bas
left behind many dear friends in both
Nonhem and Southern California. His
love. and total acceptance will be greatly nussed by them all. He loved to listen
to his friends and shared bis spirituality
freely. He remained our inspiration and
our strength up until the end.
We will keep JM alive every time
we plant an orchid, relax over lunch in a
patio cafe, or shop in a way tbal only be
could. He is also survived by bis daughter, Teri, and bis two sons. Chris and
Jeff. lbere will be a celebration of bis
life on March 16. Please call
-SIOl886-3291 for information. 'Y
by Andrea L.T. Peterson
"Most of my writing life," confides Mark
Doty, author of the new "Heaven's Coast: a
memoir" (HarperCollins), "I've been a poet."
It wasn't until after his lover of 12 years,
Wally Roberts, died in January of 1994 that
Doty discovered that familiar poetic forms
could not contain all he had to say or all of the
emotions deeply embedded in the experience he felt compelled to put into words.
"I had to tell his story and our story
together so there would be a container for
that," says Doty, "and examine what was
happening to me [the grief, the anger] in the
present."
For Doty, who felt such an incredible
"sense of closeness to his [Wally's] spirit,"
stresses that "bejng with somebody when
they die is one of the most intimate things
you can d_o. I needed to give form to that," he
says.
Doty needed to examine his own feelings
while, simultaneously, flashing back to tell
the story of his relationship with Roberts.
There is a difference between telling a
story-reco unting what you perceive to be
the truth of an event-and creating a story.
Doty, whether in poetry or in the prose of
"Heaven's Coast," is a storyteller -not a
story maker.
"It is a really great feeling," says Doty,
"to find a new form [of expression] in the
middle of my life." Approaching "Heaven's
Coast" Doty believed he "felt too much to
distill into a poem. I needed to relax, digress,
Kenneth Duane Riddle, 55, a residen
of Washington, D.C., died Thursday,
M~h 14, 1_996 of AIDS-related compli
~ahons at his Washington home, accord
mg to his stepdaughter, Carolyn Cornett,
of Teaneck, New Jersey.
Riddle was born May 11, 1940 in
Milan, Mo. He received a bachelor's degree in education from Northeast Missouri State University in Kirksville; a
master's degree in education from Colorado State University in Fort Collins;
and a doctorate in psychology from the
University of Maryland, the College Park
campus.
For several years, Riddle worked as a
teacher and school counselor in Kansas
City, Mo.; Denver, Colo.; Sacramento
Calif.; and Fairfax County, Va. In 1980:
he opened a Georgetown-based private
practice in family therapy. From 198185, he also owned Nicely-Nicely, a
Dupont Circle gift shop. In 1986, he was
awarded a contract with the Navy to provide psychological support for its HN
unit at the National Naval Medical Center HIV Evaluation and Treabnent Unit in
Bethesda, Md. He was a member of the
American Psychological Association.
He also managed the family cattle
ranch in Missouri, and was II ember of
the Amermi Anp
Riddle' ~ e of e·
tell stories, not that you can't do that in a
poem ... " ·
But prose, hopes the author, will be accessible to many more readers. "Poetry," he
maintains, "is a rarefied form": many simply
won't read it. And the "many" are those
whom he wants to reach: I would "love for it in divorce.
In addition to Cornett, Riddle is surto find its way into the hands of those strugwith whatever kind of Joss-"loss is vived by his mother, Wilma Shriver Ridgling''
dle, of Kirksville, Mo.; stepson, Ken Corloss," he says.
Those struggling to grieve, he maintains, nett; and granddaughter, Rebecca Corare "often encouraged to get over it, move nett, both of Coral Springs, Fla.
on. We need to take the time to be in those His remains were cremated and laid to
feelings," he says, "to work in and through rest in Missouri.
A memorial service will be held Fri.
grief."
after Wally died," he shares, "l day, April 12, at I p.m. at the U.S. Naval
"Right
wasn't working. "Everyone said, 'shouldn't Hospital Chapel, 8901 Wisconsin Ave.,
you be working, keeping busy?' [But] I was Bethesda, Md.
so occupied just being in the wash of my own
emotional life.
"You don't 'get through ' with grief," he
in sists. But in the writing of "Heaven's
Coast," he says, '" something happened." He
likened it to an unveiling- the Jewish custom of unveiling a headstone a year after
someone has died. The year following his
lover's death was, for Doty, a time for "examining [the experience] , giving it shape,
putting it outside of myself so I could look at
it." Somehow in the process, he says, "my
gaze went from looking at the past to looking
also at the future ."
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by Mary Ann Swissler
he many lives and recent
death of political activist
photojournalist
and
Sheldon (Shelly) Ramsdell will be
remembered during memorials
held in his honor beginning with
'
an Easter Sunday brunch at his
home from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
The 60-year-old Ramsdell lost
his lengthy battle with AIDS on
Monday, March 25 at his home in
San Francisco, but not before
leaving his distinctive mark on the
world, in pictures, words and
deeds. He was born on August 31,
1935. After receiving an honorable discharge from the U.S. Navy
in 1958, Ramsdell went on to cofound the Vietnam Veterans
Against the War in 1967, which
included a one-week encampment on the Washington Mall in
1971 to protest the war.
later he would arm himself with
this same brand of street activism in
the war on AIDS. After moving to
San Francisco in 1984, Ramsdell became an increasingly vocal AIDS activist and member of ACT UP.
Ramsdell's substantial photography portfolio reflected his eclec-
tic interests and included shots of
Abby Hoffman, some of Barbra
Streisand's first publicity photos,
Bette Midler, William S.
Burroughs, and Joel Gray. His photographs were published in national magazines as well as exhibited at the New York Public Theater.
Friends will be arranging a
posthumous show of his photos,
including his photos of J. Edgar
which
gravesite,
Hoover's
Ramsdell decorated with pink triangles and lingerie during the
1993 March on Washington for
Lesbian/Gay Rights.
Shelly's diverse circle of ftiends
will be included in memorials that
will be held on April 15 after 8
p.m. at the Twin Peaks Tavern, located at the corners of Market,
Castro and 17th streets, and on
April 28 from l to 4 p.m. at the
Cannabis Buyers Club, located at
1444 Market St.
Ramsdell is also survived by his
parents Herman and Louise
Ramsdell of Olgonquit, Maine; a
sister, Shirley Suglia of Shelton,
Connecticut; and brothers Donald
Ramsdell of Naples, Florida, and
Glenn Ramsdell of Wells, Maine.
In lieu of flowers, tax-deductible contributions may be
made in Shelly's name to The
Restitution Project, 584 Castro
Street #514, San Francisco CA
94114, a new organization dediBRAZIIJAN ROCK
41
Douglas
cated to acknowledging the conSTAR DIED OF AIDS
Art director for vid..eo coiany tribution of lesbian, gay, bisexual,
&
9/:
and transgender servicemembers.
Douglas Reed, an art · ector,
Call Linda Alband at 552-3480
The openly gay Brazilian roe
died died of complications from AIDS, for more information. ~
star who was . . . . . ta
~ . 'in fact Tuesday in his home in Boston. He
oftt
MAsoN RANKIN 56, died of AIDS
died of AIDS compliemi , say was 41.
111 Salt Lake City.
ep em er
Mr. Reed was born in Buffalo,
Brazilian gay leaders.
the decade since h.is HN diagwas one of N.Y. He graduated from the Univer- In
Renato Russo, 36,
nosis, Rankin warmed the hearts
Brazil's most popular rockers and a sity of Miami.
of countless Utah PWAs with his
He produced graphics for the organization, Kindly Gifts. Foundprodigious songwriter. Hesangwith
the band Urban Legion and had a news department of WBZ-TV, was ed in 1989, the charity enlisted
design director at Jaguar Produc- the help of an amazingly ruverse
successful solo career as well.
In I 995, Russo agreed to be hon- tions, senior designer at Vizwiz Stu- group of volunteers to knit
orary co-chair of the 17th Annual dios in Boston and, most recently, sweaters for people with AIDS.
International Lesbian and Gay As- art director at the Boston Video Elderly women, stressed-out professionals and concerned Morsociation World Conference but then Center.
He enjoyed puppetry, biking and mons overcame any cultural
fell m as the confab opened. He
gave numerous interviews related gardening at the Fenway Communi- biases to create warmth for others. Rankin knew firsthand how
y Gardens.
to the conference and donated a
cold Utah could be, and he also
He leaves his parents, George knew how much people need to
large sum of money to the gathering.
and Gloria Reed of Edenton, N.C.; a feel that they are part of someAll profits from Russo's first solo brother, David of St. Louis; and a thing larger than themselves.
CD, ''The Stonewall Celebration," sister, Deborah Nolan of Dover.
Kindly Gifts lives on after his
went to AIDS agencies and gay
Funeral arrangements are pri- death, providing a legacy of
vate. ·
organizations.
homespun Jove for all involved. •
Reed,
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by Bruce Mirken
Special to Bqy Windows
If you have ever been in the presence of
genius, it makes an indelible impression.
And Richard Rouilard, who finally lost his
long battle with AIDS May 8, was a genius.
Back in the spring of 1991, when I'd
finally summoned the courage to quit my
day job and
write full time,
~fXiMMil h:~; : :~~
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ings and watch this mad genius - "Citizen
Rouilard" some called him - at work.
What Rouilard did at The Advocate was
nothing short of amazing - and no doubt
will never be adequately acknowledged by
the cretins now running what is left of that
spread of HIV in the Third World and
among U.S. drug injectors to the hypocrisy
of the Penta gon's closeted gay spokesman
defending the milita ry's ban on gay soldiers. In only a year he transformed The
Advocate from a nothing into a significant
Not that Richard Rouilard was easy to get along with: To call
his temperment "difficult'' is to put it gently. He raged in edito
rial meetings, stormed through the hallways of the magazin
e's
Hollywood Boulevard offices and could be absolutely merc
iless with those he felt weren't living up to his standards.
at The Advocate, the national gay and lesbian newsmagazine where
Rouilard had taken over as editor-in-chief magazine.
He took a lightweight, littleabout eight months before. l was a glorified regarded
publication and turned it into somegopher for the most part, assisting news thing vital
and often electrifying, achieving
features editor Luther Whitington (sadly, nation
al prominence in the process.
also gone) with mundane tasks like filing.
Under his rule The Advocate delved into
But l also got to write a number of stories difficult
and complex issues that nobody
for the magazine, sit in on editorial meet- else was
touching - from the appalling
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national force. If anyon e else in magazine
publishing can claim a comparable achievement, I'm not aware of it.
Not that Richard Rouilard was easy to get
along with: To call his temperment "difficult" is to put it gently. He raged in editorial
meetings, stormed through the hallways of
the maga zine's Hollywood Boulevard offices and could be absolutely merciless
with those he felt weren 't living up to his
standards. He had an ego the size of a
plane t, some times making the "Citiz en
Rouilard" tag seem dead-on accurate. But
he brought something magic to the plac ea sense of purpose, an energy, an electricity
that almos t literally crackled through the
air.
It was perhaps inevitable that it would n't
last. Rouilard was simply too good and too
independent for the mediocrities that so
often call the shots in publishing. After less
than three years he was politely but firmly
shown the door, and The Advocate began a
long, slow decline, gradually turning into
the bland, celebrity-driven , glossy mess
that his successors publish today .
But for one brief, shining moment. Richard Rouilard made magi c-and showed one
nervous new writer a glimp se of what is
possible when someo ne gives a damn. 'Y
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Norman Rene, 45; his-film on AIDS
gained wide distribution, acclaim
His first effort at directing for
the big screen was "Longtim e ComNorman Rene, director of the panion" in 1990, the first theatrical
breakthr ough film about AIDS, movie about acquired immune defi"Longtime Companion," and several ciency syndrome to receive wide disaward-winning plays written by his tribution. Written by Lucas, the film
collaborator and friend Craig Lucas, focused on several upscale gay white
has died of complications due to men in New York coping with AIDS
AIDS in New York City. He was 45. and its effect on their community.
Mr. Rene, who died May 24, won
Mr. Rene's last film was the adthe Los Angeles Drama Critics Cir- aptation of Lucas' play "Reckless,"
cle award in 1985 for the West Coast starring Mia Farrow, released last
premiere of Lucas' play ''Blue Win- year.
dow." %
Mr. Rene also earned two DraAlthough most of his career was maLogue
Awards and two Obie
spent in New York theaters, Mr. Awards . .
Rene also
two other highly
Mr. Rene leaves his companion,
successful plays on the West Coast - Kevin McKenna; his mother, Margathe world premiere of "Three Post- ret Rene, and a sister, Claudia Karcards" in 1987 and the world pre- rot.
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miere of "Prelude to a Kiss" in 1988.
Paul Charles Robbin$
"Prelude" was made into a film in
1959-199 6
1992 starring Alec Baldwin and Me
His few years
Ryan and directed by Mr. Rene.
were filled with an
"I went into directing instead of
acting because I was always interincredible love of
life, which flowed
ested in the whole rather than the
in an inexhaustible
part," Mr. Rene once said. "I was instream of joy to his
terested in how you could do things
family and friends.
From dry soil,
visually on stage, how you could
he raised warm
evoke feeling by where you put peoand spirit-renewpie on stage."
ing gardens; from
~in air, he captured spectacular beauty
~- Rene, born in Rhode Island,
10 photographs; from a city of
s~died . psy~hology at Johns Hopstrangers, he gathered a family of lovLOS ANGELES TIMES
Ailine
Paul Harwy Rafalowskl
died March 26 of COD])lications from
AIDS in Laguna Beach, Calif. He was 34.
I
Rafalowski made headlines when, on
April 7, 1995, he and fellow pilot, Capt. R.
Christopher Prilliman, filed a lawsu·
against United Airlines, alleging the
were discriminated against when the air
line grounded them after finding out theili
HIV status. The case, which is still pend
ing, is the first case brought under the
Americans with Disabilities Act to
alleged HIV discrimination against commercial pilots. Born in South Carolina,
Rafalowski was raised in Canton, Ohio.
He piloted his first airplane at age 16, and
subsequently became, at 28, one of the
youngest captains in the history of commercial aviation. He is survived by his life
partner; his parents, Paul and Ann; brothers, Joe and John; sisters, Mary and
Cathy; and a large circle of friends, in-\
eluding Prilliman.
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Courtland D. Roach
Broadway.
directed
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Oct 13, 1964- Sept. 27, 1996
Courtland D. Roach, 31, of Fall
River, Mass., died Sept. 27 at home aftel
a long battle with AIDS. Born in San
Diego, Calif., he was the son of Stephen
E. and Jeanne G. Guerin Roach.
Mr. Roach had lived most of his life
in the Newpon area before moving to
Massachusetts in 1993. He graduated
from Middletown High SchOQl in 1982
and received a bachelor's degree from
the University of Rhode Island in 1989.
He earned a graduate degree from
Brown University in 1991.
He worked as a counselor and educator at Project Aware at Stanley Street
Treatment and Resources Inc. in Fall
River for five years before retiring due
to illness in 1996.
Mr. Roach served on the Fall River
AIDS Task Force for five years and was
appointed to the board of directors of
Rhode Island Project/ AIDS in 1995. He
served as secretary for the Greater Fall
River AIDS Consonium. He was cofounder and vice president of the board
of directors of Moveable Feast Inc.
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Mr. Rene met Lucas in 1980
when they collaborated on the Stephen Sondheim revue ''Marry Me a
Little."
His Broadway directing debut
came in 1986 with George Furth's
autobiog raphical play "Preciou s
Sons."
ing friends.
Out of his soul grew the exquisite
images he called Ruby Cards and the
annual Halloween Screams video, a cele~ration of his glorious and warped
friends with their imaginations set free.
And from that same soul came the tenderness and caring that touched the
lives of so many, and brought comfon
IO those who left this world before
him. His energy was as boundless as his
love, and our strongest memories will
be of his laughter and his bright blue
eyes.
Those entrusted with his memories
are: his loving and absolutely dedicated
husband, Greg; the mom he loved so
much; his brothers and sisters, Mike,
~ick, John, Robbi, Thom, Marti, Maggie and Mark; his dearest friends,
Cheryl, Lawrence, Dickie, Sandy, Dana,
Charlie, Eddie and all the Davids; and
niece,Amy.
He danced his way through life.
Now he dances with the angels.
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John Raymer
L.
John
Raymer Jr., 37,
died Thursday,
6, 1996,
complications associated
with AIDS at his
Richmond, vrr·ginia home with
his life partner,
the Rev. Dwayne
Johnson, by his
side, according to
his close friend, Bert Childs of Falls
Church, Vrrginia.
Raymer was born in Watsonville,
Calif., on Sept. 21, 1958, and grew up in
Richmond, where he graduated from Lee
Davis High School in 1976. Raymer also
attended classes at the Vrrginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, and
.oined the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity.
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Raymer's organizational and artistic
abilities led him to a variety of employment positions in the D.C. metropolitan
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area, me u mg as a meehng p anner for
the American Society of Association Executives in D.C.; a concierge for the
Washington Court Hotel, and work as a
florist and a caterer.
Most recently, Raymer volunteered in
the administrative offices of the Metropolitan Community Church (MCC) of
Richmond, where his partner serves as
senior pastor.
Raymer enjoyed spoiling his friends,
and oflen threw lavish partie& for which
he pn:pared gounnet foods and "elaborate" desserts, Childs said.
"He loved fresh cut flowers." sai
Childs. "He always had them around his
home." Raymer also enjoyed going to the
beach, decorating his apartment "from
top to bottom," and catching musicals at
the Kennedy Center and in New York
City, said Childs. He was also an associate member of Delta Lambda Phi, a Gay
social group, Childs said.
Raymer was predeceased by his parents, Helen Campbell Raymer and John
L. Raymer Sr.
In addition to Johnson aQd Childs. he
is survived by a brodler and sister-in-Jaw,
son,
Gary and Linda Foal. aad
and bmdter. .1aw.
Hunter Ali'd; a
Janet and Richard Acampora. and then
children, Shawn Dooley and Doris Tarjan; and by a great-nephew, John Tarjan,
all of Richmond. He is also survived by
the brothers of Delta Lambda Phi.
A memorial service will be held Saturday, June 22, at 7:30 p.m., at the Metropolitan Community Church of Richmond, 2501 Park Ave., in Richmond.
Thomas J. Ritzenhaler
Sept. 19, 1937 - Sept. 7, 1996
Bradley DeWitt
John Rose, 38, died
of AIDS on June
11. He is survived
by his dear lover of
16years, Will
Roscoe.
Brad grew up in
Hayward and San
Jose, and moved to
San Francisco in
1977. He sold books at many SF
venues, including Richard Hilkert
Bookseller, but his favorite job was at
the Club San Francisco baths, where he
first met Will Roscpe.
With Will, he founded VORTEX: A
Journal ofNew Vision (1980-81) and
a
was_ founding director of Nomenus, a
radical fairy organization. Brad also
published the Radical Fairy's Seedbed, a
chapbook series including essays by
Harry Hay and John Burnside. Several
times in 1992 he delivered his slide leeture on German art historian J.J. Winckelmann, revealing the queer reach of his
subject's life.
Brad's sense of humor, keen memory, wide range of interesu and abilities,
be
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and unbef;redailinbg goodall lclood~ will_ reY , an u mg his mother
mem
friends Susan p u1 '
Joan, and blessed
Cass,Elizabeth,Harry,John,~d;. '
Chris, ~tlin, Allan, Richard, Wmfield
and Solan.
Dan Kenneth Roberts
Aug. 1, 1947-Aug. 31, 1996
Tom died at home from AJDS complications in the
loving care of his
partner of 18 years,
Victor Rodriguez.
He leaves behind
friends who will
miss his sense of
fair play, calm
manner, generosity
of spirit and a dry,
understated wit
that had to be experienced to be appreciated.
Born in Rochester, N.Y., Tom studied at the University of Rochester and
moved to San Francisco in the early '70s
to work in the field of decorator fabrics.
On Valentine's Day in 1978, he met his
companion in life, Victor, and they
began to share the joy, excitement and
fun of living together.
Tom is survived by his brother,
Bernard Ritzenthaler, and cousin, Sheila
Ellsworth, as.well as his friends on the
East Coast and in San Francisco, Sarah,
William, Rita and her sons Nikolao and
Michael, and the many others who were
there throughout his last days.
A memorial service will be held Saturday, Sept. 21, 1996, 11 a.m. to noon, at
California Funeral Services, 1465 Valenp.m., friends are incia St. From I to 4°
vited to an Irish Blowout in celebration
of Tom's life at 475 Dolores St., No. I (at
18th). Phone: 415/626-9921.
Peter Jay Rosenfeld
July 16, 1951-Aug.16, 1996
A long-term HIV
survivor of 11
years, Dan succumbed toa
non-AIDS related
cancer. He died
peacefully Aug. 31
at the VA Hospital
in Palo Alto, with
his life partner,
Tom Stewart, at his
side. He is also survived by his mother,
Betty; brothers, Cary, Terry and Steve;
and sister, Colleen.
Dan worked as a hair stylist in San
Mateo, including in his own salon, Lyndel's, for the last 18 years. He was actively involved in the AIDS Is Real (AIR)
Project for Schools for San Mateo
County, The Sunburst Projects of
Petaluma and ELLIPSE of San Mateo.
His most recent AIDS-related accomplishment was the successful completion of AIDS Ride 3 from San Francisco
to Los Angeles, June 2-8, of this year.
A celebration of Dan's life will be held
at the home of Dennis Branagh, Oct. 20.
For more information, call 415/327-5710,
415/345-7318 or 510/614-2267.
Donations in Dan's name may be
made to any of the following: San
Mateo County AIDS Program, 66 Bovet
Rd .• ~te. 270, San Mateo, CA 94402; The
Sunburst Projects, P.O. Box 2824,
Petaluma, CA 94953; or ELLIPSE, 173
South Blvd., San Mateo, CA 94402.
Peter found peace
at last early Friday
morning, Aug. 16,
at Davies Medical
Center after many
years ofliving with
AIDS. He was born
in Brooklyn, N.Y.,
and moved to
White Plains when
he was three. He
graduated from White Plains High
School and earned a B.S. from Mercy
College.
While teaching special education in
Georgia, Peter earned a master's in education from Georgia State. He moved to
San Francisco in 1989, taking a job
teaching at Wilson High. He volunteered for many AIDS organizations, including Shanti, Open Hand, Under One
Roof and Project Inform.
Survivors include a sister, Susan
Schulman; his father and stepmother,
Herb and Ruth Rosenfeld; a niece, Jen·
nifer Schulman; a nephew, Andrew
Schulman; as well as many good friends
here and in Atlanta_ Special thanks to
best friend Kmneth Wright, Tab Buckner, Bob Baumgarden, Sue Mase, Ed
Lopatin and his family.
Donations may be sent to the AIDS
Emergency Fund, Shanti, Project Inform or any other AIDS organization.
Services will be Saturday, Sept. 14, at 4
p.m. at the Metropolitan Community
Church, 150 Eureka Street.
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A few days after
his 33rd birthday,
Wayne died peacefully in his sleep at
San Francisco Gen-
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eral Hospital due
a prolonged AIDSrelated illness. He is
survived by his loving caregiver, James
Machain of San
Francisco; his mother, Barbara Bush of
Salinas; and his son, Prayton LaBuda of
Portland.
"Star" came to San Francisco from
Portland in 1986 and lived here ner
since. His blond, handsome features
and gregarious personality were wellknown throughout the Polk Street area,
where he wound up liying and came to
know so well. We who knew him bid a
sad farewell.
In accordance with Wayne's wishes;
there will be no services. His cremated
remains will be scattered in the waters
of Monterey Bay, the place he loved 50
much during his youth.
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Life After
Vancouver
TMARC PAIGE
In 1987, my friend M~kRe~nolds,
upon receiving his firs "A ( c
~1di(
said to me, "I've thought so long about
dying, now all of a sudden I have to start
thinking about living." Mark was dead
ten months later. AZT was not the
answer to our prayers.
In July, 1996, reports from the
Vancouver AIDS Conference have once
again offered hope for the HIV community. Vancouver showcased hard data
about the very encouraging results of the
nucleoside analogue/protease inhibitor
cocktails. I personally have gone from 50
to 230 t-cells and from a 70,000 to a less
than 10,000 viral load with three months
of AZT-3TC-Ritonavir therapy. Much of
this three month period, however, I spent
in the bathroom, so Ritonavir and I have
since parted company. Instead, my new
best friends are the six Crixivan I down
daily, along with AZT and 3TC. Although my relationship with Crixivan is
not without its challenging conditionstwo pills, three times daily, eight hours
apart, empty stomach, the studies are
looking mighty promising. Only a year
ago l had my doubts whether I would be
around for my niece's Bat Mitzvah next
May. Now I need to go out and get a new
suit.
It was only this past April that I lay in
bed recovering from an AIDS-related
illness. At times I fell so sick that I
wasn't sure if I would make it to summer. I was keeping my goals short
term-hang on 'ti! the Grand Canyon
trip, the family reunion in May, maybe
my cousin's wedding in June. By midMay, I was feeling better. Now they're
telling me I should start planning a future
because my disease is rapidly becoming
manageable.
In the past I've tried everything from
macrobiotics to high colonies. Yet over
the years I watched my t-cells plummet
and my viral load rise. I read news
accounts of new miracle cures, only to be
disappointed when the facts became
clear. I have become resistant to any
good news about HIV, to protect myself
from more disappointment.
As optimism abounds in this time of
drug cocktails, new protease inhibitors
and better tolerated drugs, I'm finding
that my emotions are running like a roller
coaster. I'm a person who is most
comfortable with absolutes and definable
boundaries. When my HIV status was
confirmed through a blood test in 1989,
my health was good and I was sure I was
going to beat this virus. When I suffered
my first opportunistic infection in 1995, I
resolved myself to the fact that in two or
three years I would be dead. Now, the
thought of not dying in the foreseeable
future is a new and confusing concept to
me.
Those who feel the need to temper
the optimism coming from Vancouver
point out that the.studies are only a year
old, and that the resistance by the virus '
may yet develop in those taking the
drugs. Furthermore, it' s hard to celebrate
when only a fraction of the world's HIVinfected population has access to these
drugs, and AIDS casualties mount daily.
Still, many of my friends who
thought death was close at hand, are now
contemplating what they are going to do
with the rest of their lives. There have
never been any absolutes with AIDS, and
PW As have always had to adjust to life' s
challenges and changes. Like an actor
who has just been assigned a new part
after playing the same character for
years, I am energized by the new role,
but I am also anxious about losing the
familiarity of the old one. Over the last
two years I have made sure that everything is in order for my final death scene.
Now it seems they 've added a few more
acts. T
y ANE RATHB
77, a San
ranosco icon w ose arrests for
distributing pot brownies to
PWAs helped to catalyze the c_ ru
rent marijuana movement, died
of a heart attack April 10.
Nicknamed "Brownie Mary" by
the thousands of San Francisco
General Hospital AIDS patients
to whom she delivered her "magically delicious" goods, Ra~bun
baked "134 dozen browmes a
month during the heyday, 1984 t?
l990," said pot proponent Denms
Peron who with Rathbun founded th; now-defunct San Francisco
Cannabis Buyers Club. Rathbun
moved from Minnesota to San
Francisco in the 1940s and worked
as a waitress for 40 years. When
her only daughter died in ~ car
accident in the 1970s she befriended the young gay men streaming
into the city. She defied the law by
distributing pot not because she
wanted to be a hero, she once told
the Chicago Tribune, but because
"it was something I wanted to do to
help my gay friends." 1:han~ largely to Rathbun's campaign~, _m 1996 '
California passed Propos11:lon 215
and became the first state to legal- '
ize medicinal marijuana. *11
German
Maisonet-Rodriguez
Maisonet-Rodriguez moved to the
D.C. area in April 1994 to take a job as
the director of infection control and communicable disease for the Federal Bureau
German V.
of Prisons, where he was responsible for
Maisonet-Rosetting medical policy for federal prison
driguez, 49, a
iamates with HIV, tuberculosi~. or other
doctor, former dicommunicable diseases. For his job, he
rector of infecwas awarded the Outstanding Service
tion control and
Award by the government. He retired in
communicable
1996.
disease for the
t the time of his death, Maisonet-RoFederal Bureau
ez was the president of the Correcof Prisons, and
HIV Consortium, a national nonpresident of the
group focusing on the•needs of curCorrectional. HIV
rent or former inmates with HIV infecConsortIum
tion
based in Santa Barbara, California, died
·
Thursday, August 22, 1996, of AIDS-related complications at the Washington
Brian Reilly, 47, a talented artist and could hope to have. I' ve experienced
Home hospice in D.C., according to his
friend Michael Haggerty, the executive historian died Nov. 21 at his parents' what most people could only wish for in
director of the Correctional HN Consor- home in Virginia die to complications three lifetimes!" He lived his life as
from AIDS.
tium.
art-always sensitive to beauty.
Brian was born in New York City,
He lived in Arlington, Virginia.
An avid gardener, he spent many happy
Maisonet-Rodriguez was born Oct. 15, attended Beverly High School and, for hours cultivating a lovely garden in the
1946 in San Juan, Puerto Rico. He many years, resided in Boston. He re- South End of Boston. Mrs. Beatrice
moved to New York with his family in ceived a degree in Fine Arts from Mas- Palmer of Groton, MA, a noted breede~
1947. He was educated in New York City sachusetts College of Art and a degree of daylilies, is registering a new seedat Columbia University, where he gradu- in Library Sciences from Emerson Col- ling plant to be named in his memory.
ated with highest honors; Yeshiva Univer- lege. He enjoyed working at the Access
He leaves his father, John; his mother,
sity; and Albert Einstein College of Med- Center and Film Dept. of the Boston Elizabeth; sister Kerry Clark of Lynn;
icine, where he received a medical de- Public Library for many years.
brother Kevin of Jamaica Plain; his dear
He was active in and often led an nephew Drew and his constant compangree.
After working as a pediatrician in AfDS support group.
ion, Joan Carriere.
Brian collected friends everywhere.
Ohio, he moved to Los Angeles, where
Contributions in his memory can be
He was noted for his wonderful sense made to the Salvation Army and the
he opened a private practice.
After the AIDS epidemic hit in the of humor, intelligence, warmth and Ryan White fund.
early 1980s, Maisonet-Rodriguez shifted grace. Brian lived life intensely. In a
A memorial service is planned for
his focus from pediatrics to infectious final meeting with a friend, he shared mid-January.
diseases. It was while volunteering with this: "I've had the best life that anyone
AIDS service organizations that
Maisonet-Rodriguez encountered a phenomenon that would shape the rest of his
professional career. He observed that his
patients with HIV infection emerged
David Carey Roberts , age 31, of Co·
and a host of angels.
from prison in worse health that when lumbus , was born June 29, 1965 in Xenia ,
David fought a long and courageous
they entered.
battle with AIDS , and kept his sense of
Ohio, and passed away on December 26,
''They'd been in jail or prison and all 1996 after a short illness. A long time humor until the end. He was wry , intelli our time, effort, and work, had gone employee of both Lindsey 's and Engine gent , and faced his illness with a franknes s
down the toilet. It was then that I knew I House No. 5 restaurants , he is survived by
that taught and touched many of us more
had to devote myself to the needs of that his parents, Doris and Rick Roberts , and
than he will ever know . He was a steadfast
constituency,'' he once said.
friend, and his loss is felt keenly. "A Nighthis brother, Robin . He also leaves numerHe labored to improve HN-program ous aunts, uncles , cousins, many friends,
ingale Sang in ]3erkeley Square."
t,
in California prisons and, for his efforts,
he was hired to head California Department of Corrections' primary HIV treatment facility: Unit IV at the California
Medical Facility in Vacaville. He was
later hired as Chief Inspector of Prisons
for the California Medical Association.
Brian C. Reilly
re.
David Carey Roberts
(
Christopher Alan Roos
Christopher Alan Roos ofBoston died
March 26 at age 34. For the past five
y~a~s, Mr. Roos was employed as adm1mstrator of Emmanuel Church in the
Back Bay where he had been an active
member of the Vestry Commit~ee and
wher~ he had performed many times as
orgamst
.
. Born September 23, 1963, and raised
m Chestnut, _
111inois, ~hrist?ph~r attend_d Washmg~on Umvers1ty m St.
e
Louis. At tha~ ~1me he converted to
Roman Cathohc1sm and became hig~ly
knowl~dgeable about Church doctrme
and h1~tory. He moved to Boston to
enro~I m the Boston Conservatory of
Music_.
. Chnst?pher worked in several financ!al service companies before assuming
h1s post at Emmanuel in 1994. At
~.?,!~~uel, heapp~oached his work w~th
- --Icat1on to service to the comrnumty
and excellence in everything he did. An
accomplished musician who derived
great joy from precise use oflanguage, it
. was not unusual for him to provide new
translations of Bach cantatas performed
each Sunday by Emmanuel Music. His
wit and sense of humor sustained him
~d his many friends during joyous and
difficult times over the years. Christopher, who lived with H~V for many
years, was an active volunteer at AIDS
Action Committee during its early years
andwasoneoftheorganizersofitsbasic
services volunteer program.
He is survived by his loving parents,
Alan and Margie Roos of Chestnut, III.;
his sister, Jennifer Meister and her husband Gary and his beloved nieces Kayla
and Kendal. In addition, he will be sorely
missed by a host of friends and relatives
in Boston, Illinois and around the country.
A funeral Mass was celebrated March
30 atthe Jesuit Urban Center in Boston•s
South End. A memorial service and burial
will take place in Illinois on April I I.
Michael Richmond-9_ 7 7
Michael Richmond, formerly of Boston, passed away peacefully in his sleep
after a long and courageous battle living
with HIV/AIDS.
Born in Bogalusa, Louisiana, Michael
graduated from Loyola University in
New Orleans. He returned to Bogalusa
and become the youngest African American elected municipal official. He was
later appointed to the President's Youth
Empowerment Council at the U.S. Department of Labor and was a founding
member of the National League of Cities
Black Caucus.
Michael worked with performer Stevie
Wonder and organized the 1981 March
on Washington in recognition of Rev.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday.
He served as member of the board of
directors of the New Orleans Worlds
Fair and developed the Black History
Pavilion. He served as vice president of
the Louisiana Municipal Association
Black Caucus and served many other
community causes.
In 1986, Michael moved to Boston to
further his career and devote his skills to
health care for people ofcolor. He worked
with the AIDS Action Committee
coordinator of minority affairs. He later
became the director of HIV/AIDS Education & Training for Roxbury Comprehensive Health Center and served on the
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board for the Boston Living Center and
AIDS Housing Corporation.
Recognizing a need for same-sexsensitive programs and outreach in HIV/ I
AIDS, Michael founded Men of Color I
Against AIDS (MOCAA) in 1991. His
innovative approach to conducting HIV/
AIDS education and awareness became
a model for other cities such as Cleveland and Baltimore, both of which copied Richmond's ideals. MOCAA was
the first organization of its kind in the
New England area to address issues
relevant to gays and lesbians of color.
During his tenure, MOCAA received
numerous awards for its outstanding
contributions, including the Frederick
Garett Organization Award by the National Black Lesbian & Gay Leadership
Forum for MOCAA's contribution in
the community.
Michael passed this torch in the Fall I
of 1996 and relocated to his hometown
to be with his parents, siblings, and
friends. In 1998, Michael returned to
Boston to receive the Bayard Rustin
Award For Courage at the 9th Annual
Bayard Rustin Community Breakfast.
Please take a moment and celebrate
the life of our brother Michael Richmond and may we all be touched by his
warm smile and beautiful spirit.
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