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Margaret Howland, 92; gave the needy her time, attention

Before items hit the shelves of the Thrift Shop of Boston Inc., Margaret Clarke Howland would sift through them in the back storeroom, looking for that boy’s size 6 pair of navy pants or whatever item a customer had requested, foraging through mound ...

From EMMA STICKGOLD, Boston Globe,  7 Nov 2009

Missing for decades, but not forgotten

WOBURN - Melanie Melanson’s 35th birthday came and went yesterday. She was not there to celebrate, so family and friends gathered to remember the young woman who disappeared 20 years ago, just days before she would have turned 15. Last evening, those ...

From EMMA STICKGOLD, Boston Globe,  2 Nov 2009

Alice Schafer, 94; math professor breached social barriers

A lake at the University of Richmond marked the physical and cultural divide between the men’s and women’s colleges in the early 1930s, but when Alice Turner Schafer arrived as a young student, the dean advised her to challenge the historical social ...

From EMMA STICKGOLD, Boston Globe,  1 Nov 2009

Related Topics: University of Chicago,  Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Man stabbed at Boston Medical Center

A 38-year-old man was critically injured in a stabbing yesterday at Boston Medical Center, where an altercation broke out between two groups of people in a waiting room, authorities said. The victim, whose name was not released, was stabbed in the neck ...

From EMMA STICKGOLD, Boston Globe,  26 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Boston Medical Center,  Massachusetts General Hospital,  Harvard University

Hopefuls add dash of politics to Columbus Day parade

They sat in eateries on opposite sides and opposing ends of Hanover Street yesterday, catching a breather from their day’s campaign for mayor of Boston. Wind whipped up the red, white, and blue confetti into a swirl along the street that lay between ...

From EMMA STICKGOLD, Boston Globe,  12 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Sam Yoon,  Thomas M. Menino,  Michael F. Flaherty,  John Eliot

Karel Frederik Liem, 73; was biologist, Harvard professor

A chance encounter with an eel-like, 2-foot-long creature during a college trip to collect amphibians for a delectable frogs’ legs dish grabbed the attention of Dr. Karel Frederik Liem, and roughly a half-century later, he was still asking ...

From EMMA STICKGOLD, Boston Globe,  4 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Harvard University,  Museum of Natural History

Dorothy Beveridge, 63; taught many how to ice skate

Around this time of year, Dorothy (Forrest) Beveridge often began hatching detailed plans for her young ice skating pupils. There was the choreography, creating sets, cutting music tracks, and the lavish costumes she stitched together. “She did ...

From EMMA STICKGOLD, Boston Globe,  29 Sep 2009

William Porter Jr.; graced community centers with trombone

He broke his arm falling out of a tree as a young boy, and the doctor told him at the time that he should take up the trombone. Decades later, William Wendell Porter Jr. still had a trombone in his hands, playing for the Olde Kids on the Block, and the ...

From EMMA STICKGOLD, Boston Globe,  25 Sep 2009

Related Topics: William Porter

Martin Manley, 76, scalloper and advocate for fishermen

Trolling the waters off New England in search of vast quantities of scallops, Martin S. Manley knew the secret places to look as the competition increased and the catch dwindled. He knew and could predict weather patterns, held fast to superstition, ...

From EMMA STICKGOLD, Boston Globe,  22 Sep 2009

Walkers raise money for Jimmy Fund

Kim Rines stood looking out over a sea of reds, yellows, greens, and light blues yesterday, and wiped tears from her eyes. Behind her, her son Elton, 5, sat in a red wagon, with a sign that read “Thank you.’’ A week from today, Elton is scheduled to ...

From EMMA R. STICKGOLD, Boston Globe,  14 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

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