Tom Keating obit

Tom Keating – Former Buffalo Bill and Oakland Raider lineman passes away

 

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Tom Keating, a former All-Pro defensive lineman for the Raiders who had a distinct four-point stance with both hands on the ground, died Friday, two days shy of his 70th birthday. He died of prostate cancer at a hospice in Denver with family members by his bedside.

He and teammate and close friend Ben Davidson were diagnosed with terminal prostate cancer within two weeks of each other and died two months apart.


The two defensive linemen would motorcycle through Mexico, Panama and the United States during the offseason. During their playing days, Davidson was also a regular at dinner at Keating's Alameda house, a social event that would welcome a range of guests, from actor Nick Nolte and writer Peter Gent to teammates Ken Stabler and Fred Biletnikoff.

A Chicago native and three-year starter at Michigan, Keating was drafted by the Buffalo Bills in 1964. He left after two seasons to play for the Raiders from 1966 to 1972.

Keating started at defensive tackle in the 1967 season in which the Raiders went 13-1, beat the Houston Oilers 40-7 in the AFL Championship Game and lost 33-14 to the Green Bay Packers in Super Bowl II.

The defensive line of Mr. Keating, Davidson, Dan Birdwell and Ike Lassiter led a defense that gave up the fewest yards rushing and the fewest rushing yards per attempt in the AFL. Oakland also had 67 sacks and finished third in fewest passing yards and second in least points allowed.

Mr. Keating was a first-team AFL All-Star in 1967 and played in the AFL All-Star Game in 1966 and 1967. He also played for the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Kansas City Chiefs. He retired after the 1975 season.

In his later years, he worked as a private investigator for a law firm before opening his own agency in Walnut Creek.

Since 2008, Mr. Keating started spending several months of the year in Limoux, a small town in southern France. He made some new friends, bicycled, cooked and enjoyed the local wines, his brother Bill Keating said.

Mr. Keating asked his family members that his ashes be spread in the Aude River, which runs through Limoux, and along his favorite cycling route from Limoux to St. Polycarpe.

"When Tom passed on, it cheered my heart to imagine that he was really just taking the road to St. Polycarpe," said Bill Keating, an attorney in Denver who played for the Denver Broncos and Miami Dolphins. "There are vineyards that border the road to St. Polycarpe, and we will spread some of his ashes in the best of them."

Tom Keating is also survived by his three sons: James Alexander Keating, Patrick Gould and Ryan Gould.

Myles Tanenbaum obit

Myles Tanenbaum, Mall Builder, Political Activist, Dies at 82

 

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Myles H. Tanenbaum, 82, a man who held court in fields as diverse as mall development, synagogue construction and building a springtime football team for Philadelphia, died Aug. 31 at the Quadrangle in Haverford, battling Alzheimer’s disease.

A graduate of the Wharton School of the University of Penn­sylvania, as well as Penn law school, the Gladwyne resident made his mark in the main as a partner in Kravco, whose area real estate empire extended to King of Prussia, where the Plaza and the Court unfolded under his watch, in addition to the Oxford Valley Mall.

In an interview in his office in King of Prussia, he told the Jewish Exponent some 35 years ago that he envisioned malls as a natural form of entertainment for shoppers eager to make their purchases in an area that all family members could enjoy themselves. Indeed, the establishment of the King of Prussia Mall and the Plaza was instrumental in the explosion of interest and traffic along the Route 202 Corridor.

The developer left Kravco in 1988, several years after he had already become president of EQK Realty Investors.

Politically, Tanenbaum had been co-chair of the local Republican Jewish Coalition, co-writing an op-ed for the Jewish Exponent touting John McCain’s presidential bid in 2008.

Investing time and effort in the Jewish community was also important to this Queens, N.Y., native. Indeed, more than 50 years ago, Tanenbaum joined other area residents to provide funding for a new synagogue in Cheltenham, Congregation Melrose B’nai Israel, which recently moved to rent space from Reform Congregation Keneseth Israel in Elkins Park.

It wasn’t the only building of Jewish interest he helped establish: Named after his parents, the Jeanne and Bennett Tanenbaum Music Conservatory proved a notable addition to the cultural landscape of Netivot, Israel. Tanenbaum also served in the past as president of the National Museum of American Jewish History and served as co-chair of its capital campaign as it prepared its move to its new home in Society Hill.

A member of seemingly countless boards, including that of his alma mater, where he also was instrumental in establishing the Zell/Lurie Real Estate Center at Wharton and fund­ing the law school’s Tanenbaum Hall, the real estate mo­gul, a certified public accountant, wasn’t all business. He held a certain love in his heart for sports and perhaps got one of his biggest kicks out of becoming a principal owner of the Philadelphia Stars in the just-established United States Football League in 1983. The team later relocated to be the Baltimore Stars and played in all three of the championship games for the USFL.

The team captured the title in 1984, the league’s second year of operation, after losing in the championship game in 1983, all the while sporting the colors of another of Tanenbaum’s alma maters, Central High School.

Along with Ron Blanding in Denver and John Bassett in Tampa, Tanenbaum was a strong champion for the concept of spring football, believing that the USFL was viable under David Dixon's original plan for the league. As the league evolved and the forces of fall took root, Tanenbaum publicly and privately battled those pushing for a fall schedule. Nevertheless, Tanenbaum relocated the team to Baltimore (where there was no competition from the NFL) after the USFL voted to move to the fall. In the interim between the 1985 and 1986 seasons, Tanenbaum sold the Stars, refocusing his efforts on his business interests. He retired and continued to live in the Philadelphia area, remaining active in local charitable causes.

The fledgling league didn’t make it past the third year; the Stars also captured the flag that final year but from their new home in Baltimore.

Tanenbaum is survived by his daughter, Sharon; sons Stev­en and Lawrence; and seven grandchildren. He was predeceased by daughter Nicole and wife Ruthe Freedman.

 

Art Heyman obit

Art Heyman, Star at Duke, Dies at 71

 

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Art Heyman, a 6-foot-5 scoring force drafted No. 1 over all by the Knicks after leading Duke University to its first Final Four in 1963, winning national player of the year and starring in a central, combative role in the fierce rivalry between Duke and the University of North Carolina, died Monday in Florida. He was 71.

His death was confirmed by Brewer & Sons Funeral Home of Clermont, Fla.

Heyman was one of the most highly recruited high school players in the nation in his senior year at Oceanside (N.Y.) High School, and he first committed to play for North Carolina. He planned to attend along with a not necessarily friendly playground opponent from his childhood, Larry Brown, who lived in nearby Long Beach. But Heyman and his family had a change of heart at the last minute, and he chose to go to Duke, which had not yet become a basketball power.

Four years later, that had changed.

“As much as any other human being, Art was responsible for Duke University becoming a national power in college basketball,” the former Duke coach Vic Bubas said in a statement released by the university.

In the three years Heyman played on the varsity — freshmen were not allowed on the team at the time — Duke had a 69-14 record and Heyman averaged 25.1 points and 10.9 rebounds. He made the all-Atlantic Coast Conference team all three years. His senior season, 1962-63, he was named N.C.A.A. player of the year by The Sporting News, A.C.C. Player of the Year and most outstanding player of the Final Four, where Duke lost to Loyola of Chicago.

The Knicks drafted Heyman first that spring and he averaged 15.4 points per game his first year, making the all-rookie team. But his N.B.A. career did not last long. By 1967 he had moved to the newly formed American Basketball Association, where he helped lead the Pittsburgh Pipers to the league’s first championship, in 1968. Starting at guard for the losing team, the New Orleans Buccaneers, was Larry Brown.

 

Career history

1963–1965            New York Knicks

1965            Cincinnati Royals

1965–1966            Philadelphia 76ers

1966            Wilmington Blue Bombers

1966–1967            Hartford Capitols

1967    New Jersey Americans

1967–1969            Pittsburgh / Minnesota Pipers

1969–1970            Miami Floridians

Career highlights and awards

ABA champion (1968)

NBA All-Rookie First Team (1964)

NCAA Final Four MOP (1963)

USBWA Player of the Year (1963)

AP Player of the Year (1963)

UPI Player of the Year (1963)

Sporting News Player of the Year (1963)

Helms Foundation College Player of the Year (1963)

Consensus first-team All-American (1963)

Consensus second-team All-American (1962)

Third-team All-American – AP, UPI (1961)

ACC Player of the Year (1963)

ACC Athlete of the Year (1963)

3× First-team All-ACC (1961–1963)

No. 25 retired by Duke Blue Devils

First-team Parade All-American (1959)

Career NBA and ABA statistics

Points   4,030 (13.0 ppg)

Rebounds            1,461 (4.7 rpg)

Assists  859 (2.8 apg)

Neil Armstrong # 21

First man on the moon, Neil Armstrong, had passed away. He was number 21 on the list.

Neil Armstrong, First Man on the Moon, Dies at 82

Neil Armstrong was a quiet self-described nerdy engineer who became a global hero when as a steely-nerved pilot he made “one giant leap for mankind” with a small step on to the moon. The modest man who had people on Earth entranced and awed from almost a quarter million miles away has died. He was 82.

Armstrong died following complications resulting from cardiovascular procedures, a statement Saturday from his family said. It didn’t say where he died.

Armstrong commanded the Apollo 11 spacecraft that landed on the moon July 20, 1969, capping the most daring of the 20th century’s scientific expeditions. His first words after setting foot on the surface are etched in history books and the memories of those who heard them in a live broadcast.

“That’s one small step for (a) man, one giant leap for mankind,” Armstrong said.

In those first few moments on the moon, during the climax of heated space race with the then-Soviet Union, Armstrong stopped in what he called “a tender moment” and left a patch commemorate NASA astronauts and Soviet cosmonauts who had died in action.

“It was special and memorable but it was only instantaneous because there was work to do,” Armstrong told an Australian television interviewer in 2012.

Armstrong and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin spent nearly three hours walking on the lunar surface, collecting samples, conducting experiments and taking photographs.

“The sights were simply magnificent, beyond any visual experience that I had ever been exposed to,” Armstrong once said.

The moonwalk marked America’s victory in the Cold War space race that began Oct. 4, 1957, with the launch of the Soviet Union’s Sputnik 1, a 184-pound satellite that sent shock waves around the world.


Although he had been a Navy fighter pilot, a test pilot for NASA’s forerunner and an astronaut, Armstrong never allowed himself to be caught up in the celebrity and glamor of the space program.

“I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket protector, nerdy engineer,” he said in February 2000 in one of his rare public appearances. “And I take a substantial amount of pride in the accomplishments of my profession.”

A man who kept away from cameras, Armstrong went public in 2010 with his concerns about President Barack Obama’s space policy that shifted attention away from a return to the moon and emphasized private companies developing spaceships. He testified before Congress and in an email to The Associated Press, Armstrong said he had “substantial reservations,” and along with more than two dozen Apollo-era veterans, he signed a letter calling the plan a “misguided proposal that forces NASA out of human space operations for the foreseeable future.”

Armstrong’s modesty and self-effacing manner never faded.

When he appeared in Dayton in 2003 to help celebrate the 100th anniversary of powered flight, he bounded onto a stage before 10,000 people packed into a baseball stadium. But he spoke for only a few seconds, did not mention the moon, and quickly ducked out of the spotlight.

He later joined former astronaut and Sen. John Glenn to lay wreaths on the graves of Wilbur and Orville Wright. Glenn introduced Armstrong and noted it was 34 years to the day that Armstrong had walked on the moon.


“Thank you, John. Thirty-four years?” Armstrong quipped, as if he hadn’t given it a thought.

At another joint appearance, the two embraced and Glenn commented: “To this day, he’s the one person on Earth, I’m truly, truly envious of.”

Armstrong’s moonwalk capped a series of accomplishments that included piloting the X-15 rocket plane and making the first space docking during the Gemini 8 mission, which included a successful emergency splashdown.

In the years afterward, Armstrong retreated to the quiet of the classroom and his southwest Ohio farm. Aldrin said in his book “Men from Earth” that Armstrong was one of the quietest, most private men he had ever met.


In the Australian interview, Armstrong acknowledged that “now and then I miss the excitement about being in the cockpit of an airplane and doing new things.”


At the time of the flight’s 40th anniversary, Armstrong again was low-key, telling a gathering that the space race was “the ultimate peaceful competition: USA versus U.S.S.R. It did allow both sides to take the high road with the objectives of science and learning and exploration.”

Glenn, who went through jungle training in Panama with Armstrong as part of the astronaut program, described him as “exceptionally brilliant” with technical matters but “rather retiring, doesn’t like to be thrust into the limelight much.”

Derek Elliott, curator of the Smithsonian Institution’s U.S. Air and Space Museum from 1982 to 1992, said the moonwalk probably marked the high point of space exploration.

The manned lunar landing was a boon to the prestige of the United States, which had been locked in a space race with the former Soviet Union, and re-established U.S. pre-eminence in science and technology, Elliott said.

“The fact that we were able to see it and be a part of it means that we are in our own way witnesses to history,” he said.

The 1969 landing met an audacious deadline that President Kennedy had set in May 1961, shortly after Alan Shepard became the first American in space with a 15-minute suborbital flight. (Soviet cosmonaut Yuri A. Gagarin had orbited the Earth and beaten the U.S. into space the previous month.)


“I believe this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before the decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to Earth,” Kennedy had said. “No single space project in this period will be more impressive to mankind, or more important to the long-range exploration of space; and none will be so difficult or expensive to accomplish.”

The end-of-decade goal was met with more than five months to spare. “Houston: Tranquility Base here,” Armstrong radioed after the spacecraft settled onto the moon. “The Eagle has landed.”

“Roger, Tranquility,” the Houston staffer radioed back. “We copy you on the ground. You’ve got a bunch of guys about to turn blue. We’re breathing again. Thanks a lot.”

The third astronaut on the mission, Michael Collins, circled the moon in the mother ship Columbia 60 miles overhead while Armstrong and Aldrin went to the moon’s surface.

In all, 12 American astronauts walked on the moon between 1969 and the last moon mission in 1972.

For Americans, reaching the moon provided uplift and respite from the Vietnam War, from strife in the Middle East, from the startling news just a few days earlier that a young woman had drowned in a car driven off a wooden bridge on Chappaquiddick Island by Sen. Edward Kennedy. The landing occurred as organizers were gearing up for Woodstock, the legendary three-day rock festival on a farm in the Catskills of New York.

Armstrong was born Aug. 5, 1930, on a farm near Wapakoneta in western Ohio. He took his first airplane ride at age 6 and developed a fascination with aviation that prompted him to build model airplanes and conduct experiments in a homemade wind tunnel.

As a boy, he worked at a pharmacy and took flying lessons. He was licensed to fly at 16, before he got his driver’s license.

Armstrong enrolled in Purdue University to study aeronautical engineering but was called to duty with the U.S. Navy in 1949 and flew 78 combat missions in Korea.

After the war, Armstrong finished his degree from Purdue and later earned a master’s degree in aerospace engineering from the University of Southern California. He became a test pilot with what evolved into the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, flying more than 200 kinds of aircraft from gliders to jets.

Armstrong was accepted into NASA’s second astronaut class in 1962 — the first, including Glenn, was chosen in 1959 — and commanded the Gemini 8 mission in 1966. After the first space docking, he brought the capsule back in an emergency landing in the Pacific Ocean when a wildly firing thruster kicked it out of orbit.

Armstrong was backup commander for the historic Apollo 8 mission at Christmastime in 1968. In that flight, Commander Frank Borman, and Jim Lovell and Bill Anders circled the moon 10 times, and paving the way for the lunar landing seven months later.

Aldrin said he and Armstrong were not prone to free exchanges of sentiment.

“But there was that moment on the moon, a brief moment, in which we sort of looked at each other and slapped each other on the shoulder … and said, ‘We made it. Good show,’ or something like that,” Aldrin said.

An estimated 600 million people — a fifth of the world’s population — watched and listened to the landing, the largest audience for any single event in history.

Parents huddled with their children in front of the family television, mesmerized by what they were witnessing. Farmers abandoned their nightly milking duties, and motorists pulled off the highway and checked into motels just to see the moonwalk.

Claire Malis obit

Actress Claire Malis Callaway Dies at 69

She starred in “The Facts of Life” and “One Life to Live.”

 

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Actress Claire Malis Callaway, a star on the ABC daytime serial One Life to Live and a mom on NBC’s popular 1980s sitcom The Facts of Life, has died. She was 69.

Callaway died Aug. 24 of congestive heart failure and pneumonia at City of Hope Helford Clinical Research Hospital in Duarte, Calif. She had undergone a stem cell transplant in 2010 in a battle with non-Hodgkin lymphoma.

As Claire Malis, she played Rose Polniaczek, the divorced mother of Nancy McKeon’s character, on The Facts of Life. Earlier, she was Dorian, the matriarch of the Cramer family, on One Life to Live from February 1977 to April 1979. (Malis was succeeded in the role by Robin Strasser, who would star on the daytime drama for three decades.)

Malis was born on Feb. 17, 1943, and raised in Gary, Indiana. While at Indiana University, she auditioned for and received one of only 16 national full scholarships to the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York. She was named best actress of her graduating class.

After performing in off-Broadway productions and national tours of two Broadway shows, Malis was cast in a small role in John Cassavetes’ film Husbands (1970). She followed that with a season at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, performing in Taming of the Shrew, then returned to New York for her stint on One Life to Live. She moved to Los Angeles in 1980.

Her other TV appearances included roles on Lou Grant, Taxi, St. Elsewhere, Falcon Crest, Murphy Brown, Picket Fences, Suddenly Susan and The Division.

Between 1983 and 1988 Malis portrayed Rose Polniaczek, mother of series regular Jo (played by Nancy McKeon), in six episodes of the NBC sitcom The Facts of Life.

On stage, Malis appeared in the Ahmanson Theatre production of Detective Story starring Charlton Heston in 1984 and produced and acted in plays at the Ensemble Studio Theatre in Los Angeles. She co-created In the Trenches Productions, a production company aiming for roles for women over age 40.

Survivors include her husband Thomas Callaway, an architectural and interior designer who has worked on the homes of such Hollywood luminaries as producer Alan Ladd Jr. and Rhino Records founder Richard Foos; their son Catlin; and her brother Lee.

Actress (43 credits)

 2007 The Anna Nicole Smith Story

Etiquette Instructor (as Claire Malis Callaway)

 2005 Mystery Woman (TV Series)

Mrs. Lowell

- Mystery Woman: Vision of a Murder (2005) ... Mrs. Lowell (as Claire Malis Callaway)

 2004 The Division (TV Series)

- Lost and Found (2004) ... (as Claire Malis Callaway)

- Rush to the Door (2004) ... (as Claire Malis Callaway)

 2004 Line of Fire (TV Series)

Amy Frost

- The Best-Laid Plans (2004) ... Amy Frost (as Claire Malis Callaway)

 2003 CSI: Miami (TV Series)

Adele Alonzo

- Bunk (2003) ... Adele Alonzo (as Claire Malis Callaway)

 2001 Will & Grace (TV Series)

Jo Black

- Sons and Lovers (2001) ... Jo Black (as Claire Malis Callaway)

- Sons and Lovers (2001) ... Jo Black (as Claire Malis Callaway)

 1998 Suddenly Susan (TV Series)

Mrs. Shafer

- A Tale of Two Pants: Part 2 (1998) ... Mrs. Shafer (as Claire Malis Callaway)

 1997 A Nightmare Come True (TV Movie)

Ellen (as Claire Malis Calloway)

 1996 The Client (TV Series)

Sally

- Private Lives (1996) ... Sally (as Claire Malis Callaway)

 1995 A Mother's Prayer (TV Movie)

Mrs. Ford (as Claire Malis Callaway)

 1994 Murder, She Wrote (TV Series)

Emily Bryce

- Murder by Twos (1994) ... Emily Bryce (as Claire Malis Callaway)

 1993 Picket Fences (TV Series)

Mrs. Fenn

- Blue Christmas (1993) ... Mrs. Fenn (as Claire Malis Callaway)

- Sugar and Spice (1993) ... Mrs. Fenn (as Claire Malis-Callaway)

 1993 L.A. Law (TV Series)

Mrs. Hartshorn

- Testing, Testing, 1... 2... 3... 4 (1993) ... Mrs. Hartshorn (as Claire Malis Callaway)

 1993 The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom (TV Movie)

June Sofar (as Claire Mallis-Callaway)

 1992 Civil Wars (TV Series)

Corinne Jaeckel

- Devil's Advocate (1992) ... Corinne Jaeckel (as Claire Malis-Callaway)

 1992 Those Secrets (TV Movie)

Nora (as Claire Malis Callaway)

 1992 Murphy Brown (TV Series)

Mrs. Abernathy

- Murphy Buys the Farm (1992) ... Mrs. Abernathy (as Claire Malis-Callaway)

 1991 Silent Motive (TV Movie)

Hilary Davenport (as Claire Malis-Callaway)

 1990 Diving In

Mrs. Hopkins

 1989 Falcon Crest (TV Series)

Arlene 'Scotty' Scott

- Soul Sacrifice (1989) ... Arlene 'Scotty' Scott

 1988 Two Idiots in Hollywood

Indian Juror

 1988 Maybe Baby (TV Movie)

Lois

 1988 Moving

Helen Fredericks

 1983-1988 The Facts of Life (TV Series)

Rose Polniaczek

- Till Marriage Do Us Part (1988) ... Rose Polniaczek

- Rites of Passage: Part 1 (1987) ... Rose Polniaczek

- The Second Time Around (1983) ... Rose Polniaczek

- Graduation: Part 2 (1983) ... Rose Polniaczek

- Graduation: Part 1 (1983) ... Rose Polniaczek

1986 Our House (TV Series)

Alma

- Heart of a Dancer (1986) ... Alma

- That Lonesome Old Caboose (1986) ... Alma

 1986 'night, Mother

Operator (voice)

 1986 Convicted (TV Movie)

 1985 Washingtoon (TV Series)

Livia Vixen

- The God Lobby (1985) ... Livia Vixen

 1984 Heartbreakers

Marilyn

 1983 Simon & Simon (TV Series)

Diane Horton

- The Skeleton Who Came Out of the Closet (1983) ... Diane Horton

 1983 St. Elsewhere (TV Series)

Mrs. Stewart

- Family History (1983) ... Mrs. Stewart

 1983 Quincy M.E. (TV Series)

Evelyn Hillman

- The Law Is a Fool (1983) ... Evelyn Hillman

 1982 Cry for the Strangers (TV Movie)

Rebecca Palmer

 1982 CHiPs (TV Series)

Mrs. Russell

- Meet the New Guy (1982) ... Mrs. Russell

 1982 Shannon (TV Series)

- John's Awakening (1982)

 1981 Born to Be Sold (TV Movie)

Claire

 1981 Taxi (TV Series)

Cynthia

- On the Job: Part 2 (1981) ... Cynthia

 1981 Lou Grant (TV Series)

Helen

- Venice (1981) ... Helen

 1980 CBS Children's Mystery Theatre (TV Series)

Mrs. Monday

- The Treasure of Alpheus T. Winterborn (1980) ... Mrs. Monday (as Claire Mallis)

 1980 From Here to Eternity (TV Series)

Dr. Anne Brewster

 1979 The Incredible Hulk (TV Series)

Elizabeth Banner

- Homecoming (1979) ... Elizabeth Banner

 1977-1979 One Life to Live (TV Series)

Dr. Dorian Cramer Lord #2 / Dorian Lord

- Episode #1.2718 (1979) ... Dr. Dorian Cramer Lord #2

- Episode dated 24 May 1978 (1978) ... Dr. Dorian Cramer Lord #2

- Episode dated 1 February 1978 (1978) ... Dr. Dorian Cramer Lord #2

- Episode dated 23 January 1978 (1978) ... Dorian Lord

- Episode #1.2362 (1977) ... Dr. Dorian Cramer Lord #2

 1970 Husbands

Stuart's Wife

Self (1 credit)

 1978 The Mike Douglas Show (TV Series)

Self - Co-Host

- Episode #17.181 (1978) ... Self - Co-Host