Transitions.DIED: Dorrwin Buck Jones, 66, member of the pioneering Mattachine Society The Mattachine Society was the earliest homophile organization in the United States. Founding The organization was founded by Harry Hay along with a small group of friends. , of heart failure, in San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden , December 29. DIED: Michael Stremel, 34, former vice president of East Coast production for Fox Searchlight searchlight, device, usually swiveled, using a lens and reflecting surface to direct a powerful beam of light of nearly parallel rays. In 1892 such apparatus was used along the English Channel in coastal defense and later, in the South African War, as an aid to , of AIDS complications, in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. , January 1, Stremel helped develop Swoon and Boys Don't Cry, among other films. APPOINTED: Claudia French, as executive director of Washington, D.C.-based AIDS Action, January 5. RECOVERING: John Schlesinger, film director, from a stroke suffered December 30 in Palm Springs, Calif. RESIGNED: Michelle Benecke, as co--executive director of Service-members Legal Defense Network, to pursue other career opportunities, January 10. |
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