Transitions.DIED: Thomas Gehling, 59, co-founder of n well-known Colorado Springs Colorado Springs, city (1990 pop. 281,140), seat of El Paso co., central Colo., on Monument and Fountain creeks, at the foot of Pikes Peak; inc. 1886. It is a year-round resort and a booming military, technological, and commercial city. gay bar and the city's first AIDS hospice, of complications from pneumonia, August 13. APPOINTED: Joseph McCormack, as chairman of the board of trustees board of trustees Politics The posse of thugs who oversee an institution's administration. See Board of directors. for the Point Foundation, an organization that provides support to students marginalized because of sexual orientation sexual orientation n. The direction of one's sexual interest toward members of the same, opposite, or both sexes, especially a direction seen to be dictated by physiologic rather than sociologic forces. , August 13. ELECTTED: Michael Andraychak, a Democratic party activist, as president of California's Stonewall stone·wall v. stone·walled, stone·wall·ing, stone·walls v.intr. 1. Informal a. Democratic Club, August 12. RESIGNED: Partners Keith and Neil Coffman-Grey, from the Santa Barbara County Democratic Central Committee, over a disputed apology for their criticism of a gay-marriage opponent, August 12. |
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