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A pause to remember those who departed

By Joseph P. Kahn, Globe Staff, 12/31/2001

The excursion is the same,'' Eudora Welty once wrote, ''when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.''

Welty, the Pulitzer Prize-winning belletrist from Mississippi, was among the many notables who died in 2001, a year in which the nation met its deepest sorrow in terrorism's shadow. Her death closely followed that of the Washington Post's Katharine Graham, a fellow Pulitzer winner and the doyenne of postwar American journalism.

Two giants of American politics were also laid to rest this year. US Representative John Joseph Moakley, the plain-spoken, common-sense son of Southie, and former US Senate majority leader Mike Mansfield, the self-effacing Montanan who later served as ambassador to Japan, both demonstrated over long careers that men of principle could indeed thrive inside the Beltway.

All things must pass and so, too, did George Harrison, the ''quiet Beatle,'' who lost his battle with cancer at age 58. Carnegie Hall dimmed its lights for violinist Isaac Stern, the hall's most valuable player in its hour of need. Hollywood tipped its fedora to Jack Lemmon, an actor of singular intelligence and versatility.

Author Ken Kesey boarded the bus for one last ride, cheered on merrily by fellow Pranksters. Carroll O'Connor, TV's Archie Bunker, bade goodbye with a scowl on his mug and a twinkle in his eye. Driving ace Dale Earnhardt took his final lap and Hall of Fame slugger Willie Stargell his last cuts.

The world community shared similar sentiments in mourning the thousands who perished in the Sept. 11 attacks in New York, Washington, and Pennsylvania. Among the victims were former Boston Bruin Garnet ''Ace'' Bailey, actress Berry Berenson Perkins, ''Frasier'' producer David Angell, LA Kings scout Mark Bavis, author and television commentator Barbara Olson, Port Authority of New York director Neil Levin, and 479 New York rescue personnel. No list does justice, however, to the shock and grief felt throughout the world that day, nor to the loss still felt by thousands of wives, husbands, children, and other loved ones left behind.

In France, meanwhile, Marie Bremont and Michel Navratil both passed away this year. Navratil, 91, was the last male survivor of the Titanic sinking. Bremont, a former factory worker and seamstress, was believed to be the world's oldest person when she died on June 6, at age 115.

Politics and law

In the political arena, Maureen Reagan served her father's presidential ambitions before taking up the cause of Alzheimer's research. The UAW's Leonard Woodcock was an erudite and influential labor leader. Harold Stassen of Minnesota was America's quadrennial presidential candidate. Ohio governor James Rhodes will be remembered for dispatching National Guard troops to Kent State in 1970. The Washington establishment said goodbye to defense expert Paul Warnke, Watergate lawyer James St. Clair, and William Rogers, secretary of state under Richard M. Nixon.

Springfield's Edward Boland served 18 terms in Congress, lending his name to amendments in 1982 and 1983 restraining aid to the Nicaraguan contra rebels. Also from the House ranks were Frank Annunzio of Illinois, Gerald Solomon of New York, Lawrence Coughlin of Pennsylvania, John Schmitz of California, Norman Sisisky of Virginia, and Floyd Spence of South Carolina.

As governor, Meldrim Thomson of New Hampshire was a feisty conservative. Mayor Abe Beame guided New York City through its fiscal crisis in the 1970s. Texas prosecutor Henry Wade gave his name to Roe v. Wade. The Rev. Leon Sullivan spelled out rules for investment in South Africa. David McTaggart helped launch Greenpeace. Resort owner Neil Tillotson of Dixville Notch, N.H., cast the first vote in every presidential primary since 1964.

World affairs

The death of former South Vietnam president Nguyen Van Thieu reminded the world of earlier conflicts and quagmires. Sir Peter Blake of New Zealand, slain on an Amazon River expedition, was a world-class yachtsman and ardent environmentalist. Nepal's King Birenda and Queen Aiswarya were assassinated by one of their sons. In South Africa, activist Joe Modise and journalist Donald Woods were antiapartheid heroes. Babu Chiri Sherpa set climbing records before dying on Mt. Everest. Leopold Senghor, a poet and statesman, led Senegal to independence. Twelve-year-old Nkosi Johnson of South Africa inspired millions with his battle against AIDS.

Also exiting the world's stage were former leaders Victor Paz Estenssoro of Bolivia, Congo's Laurent Kabila, Juan Bosch of the Dominican Republic, Duong Van Minh of South Vietnam, and Poland's Henryk Jablonski. Britain said goodbye to historian John Plumb, cricket legend Donald Bradman, and spymaster David Spedding. Two WWII heroes - Gerhart Riegner of the World Jewish Congress and Emilie Schindler, widow of Oskar Schindler - also died this year, as did the PLO's Faisal Husseini and Chinese dissident Wang Ruowang.

Literary world

John Knowles wrote ''A Separate Peace,'' a classic coming-of-age novel. Gregory Corso composed Beat poetry for the ages. Anne Morrow Lindbergh became a prolific writer after making aviation history. Douglas Adams's ''Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'' mocked modern technology. W. G. Sebald wrote ''Austerlitz'' and other masterworks.

Robert Rimmer raised eyebrows with ''The Harrad Experiment,'' a novel about contemporary sexual relationships. Peter Maas ripped the lid off the mob and corrupt cops in books such as ''Serpico.'' Robert Ludlum cranked out ''The Bourne Identity'' and other thrillers. Mordecai Richler's funny novels included ''The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz.''

Great critics don't come along very often, and so the loss of Mortimer Adler, Auberon Waugh, George T. Simon, and Nora Sayre loomed large this year. Novelist Jorge Amado satirized Brazilian politics, A. R. Ammons and Agha Shahdid Ali were acclaimed poets, and Poul Anderson a Hugo-winning science fiction writer. Also mourned were Indian novelist R. K. Narayan, historian Stefan Heym, illustrator Fred Marcellino, poet Louis Dudek, and novelist Hermann Field.

Film

Oscar winner Anthony Quinn, who died in Boston, was best known for playing the title role in the 1964 film ''Zorba The Greek,'' though he gave dozens of other incandescent performances. Stanley Kramer directed many classic Hollywood dramas, including ''High Noon'' and ''Judgment at Nuremburg.'' Director Herbert Ross gave life to films like ''Funny Girl'' and ''The Sunshine Boys.'' William Hanna delighted fans with his animation wizardry. Harold Nicholas hoofed it up as one of the dancing Nicholas Brothers. Beatrice Straight won an Oscar for ''Network.''

Obits were also written for director Michael Ritchie, lyricist Jay Livingston, animator Faith Hubley, screenwriters Julius Epstein, and Gordon Kennedy, producers Howard Koch, Lester Persky, and Samuel Arkoff, actor-puppeteer Lewis Arquette, and actresses Joan Sims, Jane Green, and Dagmar, the sultry blonde bombshell of the 1950s.

Music

In music, R&B singer Aaliyah Haughton died the way far too many pop stars have: in a tragic plane crash that robbed fans of her blossoming talent. Blues legend John Lee Hooker was an inspiration to legions of younger musicians. No less revered were guitar picker Chet Atkins, punk rocker Joey Ramone, zydeco icon Boozoo Chavis, world music pioneer Chico O'Farril, soul music's Rufus Thomas, and bluegrass whiz John Hartford. John Phillips led the Mamas and Papas to fame in the 1960s with ''California Dreamin''' and other hits.

Jazz greats John Lewis, Joe Henderson, J. J. Johnson, Buddy Tate, Al Hibbler, and Tommy Flanagan all played their final notes in 2001. An older generation mourned the passing of crooner Perry Como and Les Brown, bandleader of renown. Fred Neil and Mimi Farina were gifted folk musicians. John Fahey and Sandy Bull made their guitars sing.

Susannah McCorkle and Maude Rutherford were talented jazz vocalists. Larry Adler was the world's foremost harmonica virtuoso. Luis Bonfa popularized the bossa nova sound. Leon Wilkeson played bass guitar for Lynyrd Skynyrd. Stuart Adamson fronted the rock group Big Country. Silenced too were Grady Martin, Ron Towson, James Myers, Ernie K-Doe, Johnny Russell, and Betty Everett, who popularized ''The Shoop Shoop Song.''

The arts

The art world saluted Jacques Lowe, JFK's court photographer, who died this year but whose work lives on. So too for Balthus, the controversial realist painter; muralist John Biggers; folk artist Howard Finster; photographer O. Winston Link; painters Morris Graves, Mine Okuba, and Pauline Campanelli; and Pueblo Indian potter Margaret Tafoya. Daniel Wildenstein was hailed as one of the world's great art collectors.

Los Angeles and Miami, two cities known for their distinctive architecture, lost signature designers in Martin Stern and Morris Lapidus. Landscape architect Arthur Edwin Bye elevated naturalism to an art form. Hank Ketcham created ''Dennis The Menace,'' America's favorite imp, while Seymour Reit drew smiles with ''Casper, The Friendly Ghost.'' Cartoonists Dan DeCarlo, who drew ''Archie,'' and Dave Graue, who did ''Alley Oop,'' also capped their pens for good, as did George Gately, creator of ''Heathcliff.''

Theater and dance

They wrote - and delivered - some of the best lines of their generation. Kim Stanley sizzled in ''Bus Stop'' and won two Oscar nominations, one for ''Seance on a Wet Afternoon.'' Playwright-actor Jason Miller penned ''That Championship Season'' and starred in ''The Exorcist.'' Dorothy McGuire enchanted on stage, screen, and television.

Jose Greco danced up a storm. Animal trainer Gunther Gebel-Williams was the circus world's answer to Elvis. Costume designer Freddy Wittop copped a Tony for ''Hello, Dolly!'' Genji Ito composed music for experimental theater. Lionel Abel won an Obie for ''Absalom.'' Norman Rodway and Michael Williams were memorable Shakespearean actors, Arthur Cantor a legendary producer. Edward Mangum founded the Arena Stage theater.

Television and radio

Fans sang a chorus of ''Happy Trails'' to Dale Evans, television's most popular cowgirl during the 1950s. Arlene Francis was a droll panelist on ''What's My Line?'' Comedienne Imogene Coca played second banana to Sid Caesar, making up one of TV's all-time great comedy duos. Trash-talk host Morton Downey Jr. finally rested in peace, as did everybody's favorite TV Martian, actor Ray Walston.

Fred De Cordova produced the ''Tonight'' show during Johnny Carson's long reign. Whitman Mayo played Grady on the hit sitcom ''Sanford and Son.'' Troy Donahue was a teen heartthrob on ''Hawaiian Eye'' and ''Surfside Six.''

Christopher Hewett played ''Mr. Belvedere.'' Ann Sothern starred in two popular '50s series. Jack Haley Jr. produced many Academy Awards telecasts. Foster Brooks played the lovable sot better than anyone. Frances Horwich rang the bell at ''Ding Dong School.''

Media

In the media realm, no pundit wielded a sharper pen than Herbert L. Block, the Washington Post editorial cartoonist known as Herblock, who died at age 91. New Yorker critic Pauline Kael changed the way people thought and wrote about movies. As biographer and broadcaster, Dick Schaap, who seemed to know everyone, moved effortlessly between the sports arena and the arts world. Lloyd Shearer penned a widely read Parade column. Heywood Hale Broun was a jauntily attired sports journalist and TV commentator.

The New York Times lost several distinguished alumni, among them reporters Marjorie Hunter and Tad Szulc, fashion editor Carrie Donovan, sportswriter Phil Berger, and editorial writer John Oakes. Rowland Evans was an old-school political junkie and widely read syndicated columnist. Luci Houston, a homicide victim, took pictures for the San Jose Mercury News. Photographer Will Counts captured a powerful image of school desegregation in Little Rock.

Sports

In sports, the New England Patriots lost a pair of family members in 2001, coach Dick Rehbein and Pro Bowl lineman Leon Gray. Korey Stringer was a mainstay of the Minnesota Vikings offensive line. Tommie Agee starred for the New York Mets in the 1969 World Series. Hall of Fame slugger Eddie Mathews graced the very first cover of Sports Illustrated. Another ex-Milwaukee Brave, pitcher Bob Buhl, also died this year, as did former major leaguers Curt Blefary, Bo Belinsky, Gene Woodling, Hank Sauer, Lou Boudreau, and umpire Hank Soar.

The Red Sox lost two beloved friends in coach Eddie (Pops) Popowski and Helen Robinson, the team's longtime switchboard operator. Andy Phillip played guard for the 1957 Celtics when they won their first of 16 NBA titles. The coaching ranks were thinned by the deaths of the NBA's Larry Costello, college football's John McKay, Charlie McClendon, and Charley Pell, baseball's Bill Rigney, college hockey's Shawn Walsh and John Murdoch, and college basketball's Ralph Miller and Al McGuire, who became a popular TV commentator, as did the late Marty Glickman.

Diana Golden Brosnihan was a skiing champ and inspiration for all disabled athletes. Lawrence ''Crash'' Davis, a minor-league baseball legend, was immortalized in the film ''Bull Durham.'' Love him or hate him, listeners to Boston sports-talk radio seldom tuned out when Tom Speers (a.k.a. Butch from the Cape) weighed in with his salty opinions.

Business

A legend in the business world, William Hewlett co-founded Hewlett-Packard and thus helped put Silicon Valley on the map. Mary Kay Ash remade the cosmetics industry in her own image, complete with pink Cadillacs. Victor Kiam hawked Remington shavers and owned the Patriots at one time. As CEO of American Express, Howard Clark reminded us, ''Don't leave home without'' his card. Ely Callaway put his stamp on the golf-club industry. Pasta mogul Joseph Pellegrino turned Wednesday into Prince Spaghetti Day. George Wheelwright III co-founded Polaroid. Leslie Quick Jr. of Quick & Reilly pioneered the discount stock brokerage. Chung Ju-yung founded Hyundai.

Academia

Nathan Pusey led Harvard University through change and through storm during his presidency from 1953 to 1971. Charles Black Jr. was a constitutional law expert in Texas. Harvard's Richard Schultes was known as the father of ethnobotany. Feminist educator Millicent Carey McIntosh was the first married woman to run a top college when she assumed the presidency of Barnard in 1952. MIT's Kenneth Hale was an influential linguist. Filmmaker Richard Pendleton Rogers ran Harvard's film studies program.

Campus flags were also lowered for Brandeis astrophysicist Jack Goldstein, MIT computer visionary Michael Dertouzos, Buddhist scholar Harrison Hoblitzelle, Yale literary critic Naomi Schor, and Harvard biochemist Don C. Wiley, whose mysterious death in Tennessee this year remains under investigation.

Innovators

America is built on vision and innovation, and what would the country be without gadflies like hot rod customizer Ed ''Big Daddy'' Roth, who once defined the essence of California cool? Designer Morison Cousins came up with the prototype for Tupperware. Admen Harvey Ball (the Happy Face) and Don Tennant (Tony the Tiger) left their mark on pop culture, too. Robert Moon championed the ZIP code. Adolph Levis concocted the ubiquitous Slim Jim. Cliff Hillegass created Cliff Notes, for better or worse.

Science and medicine

In and out of the laboratory, sex researcher William Masters deepened our understanding of human sexuality. Neuroscientist John Lilly blazed his own path in experimenting with LSD and dolphin communication. Christiaan Barnard made headlines in 1967 by performing the first human heart transplant. Sir Fred Hoyle, an astronomer, coined the term Big Bang theory, even though Hoyle didn't much believe in it. Robert Tools received the world's first artificial-heart implant. British archeologist T. Geoffrey Bibby unearthed the kingdom of Dilmun, in Bahrain.

Boston scene

Boston lost its share of favorite sons and daughters this year, too, underscoring the changing nature of the city itself. Frederick Langone was a garrulous, cigar-smoking city councilor, Averil Lashley a City Hall insider who became a familiar publicist-about-town. James F. ''Blackie'' Burke was a colorful state senator. Judge Jeremiah Sullivan also served as a respected state representative. Gospel singer Ruth Hamilton earned the sobriquet the Cambridge Jewel. Edward Kondayan, known as ''Mr. Eddie,'' was a retired draftsman and onetime Sox batboy.

Judge Eileen Griffin was the first female justice in Western Massachusetts. Newton's Katherine Mearls Rogan was a champion athlete in her youth. MGH physician Tom Durant won a United Nations humanitarian award. Cardiologist Jeffrey Isner pioneered the field of gene therapy. Ralph Dart served as deputy commissioner of cultural affairs. Jorge Fidalgo hosted a popular Cape Verdean radio show. Monsignor Leandre Jeannot was a leader of the Haitian community. Robert Rohan served nine terms in the State House. Armando Ghitalla anchored the BSO's trumpet section. Engineer Paul Levenson led the L Street Brownies on their annual New Year's Day plunge. Barbara Lee was a stockbroker and radio commentator, Wamsutta Frank James an activist and educator.

The region also lost publishing executive Richard Gladstone, attorneys J. Newton Esdaile and Max Beck, Boston University dean Brendan Gilbane, entrepreneur Jacob Hiatt, costume designer Vivian Dooley, bishops John McNamara and Lawrence Riley, transplant surgeon Francis Moore, Harvard medical professor William McDermott, clothing designer Samuel Robert, housing activist Ruby Jaundoo, diplomat-author John Bovey, hotelier Sigi Brauer, Tufts dean Louis Calisti, MFA curator Eleanor Sayre, and Donald Campbell, the small-town physician who modeled for Norman Rockwell.

Aviators Barbara Gard and Gwen Bloomingdale of Provincetown perished during an attempted round-the-world flight. They will be sorely missed, as will producer Bill Weems, engineer Alexander Filipov, consultant Richard Ross, and philanthropist Sonia Puopolo, all of whom were among the victims of Sept. 11.

At the Globe

Here at the Globe, we bow our heads this holiday season in remembrance of: William Doherty, Frank Harris, Jane Godfrey, Joseph Dennehy, Richard Collins, Susan Epstein Dill, Joseph O'Brien, Daniel Morreo, Betty Ann Robey, Alexander Bowman, Edward Quigley, George Ramsay, Henry Coughlin, Robert Williams, Leo Brady, John Toomey, Joseph Considine, Benjamin Robinson, Walter Francis, Richard McDonough, John Sullivan, Frank Ricciardi, Charles Spencer, Helge Sahlin, Richard Ahern, and music critic Arthur Hepner.

''To the memory nothing is ever really lost,'' wrote Eudora Welty in ''One Writer's Beginnings.'' And so to memory are committed all those who now rest in the sleep of peace - for auld lang syne.

-- Anonymous, December 31, 2001