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Brewer dies

Queens black politician Guy R. Brewer cut off]]man of the 29th A.D. [[text cut off]] Beth-Israel Hospital [[text cut off]] patient for the past [[/text cut off]]

was elected president of the Queens NAACP for several terms.

in 1960, he was picked as the first Black assemblyman from the 29th A.D. and remained in that post until his death.

He is survived by his wife of 41 years Mrs. Marie Brown Brewer [[text cut off]] 


Mead, a woman of the world, dies

By CLYDE SATTERWHITE

Margaret Mead, whose studies of primitive cultures in the South Seas made her the world's best-known anthropologist, died of cancer yesterday at New York Hospital. She would have been 77 years old on Dec. 16.

The outspoken author and social critic entered the hospital Oct. 3. Associates said that she had known for about a year that she had cancer but had continued working until she was hospitalized. 

Private funeral services and burial will be in Buckingham, Pa. 

While she was still a schoolgirl, Margaret Mead's father once said to her, "It's a pity you're not a boy. You'd have gone far."

Popular, Influential

Unperturbed by this piece of parental male chauvinism, she went on to become the mother figure of anthropology, her name a household word, a legend in her own time.

Easily the most popular and influential anthropologist of her day, she was the author of a score of books (some of them best sellers) as well as hundreds of magazine articles and scholarly papers. She was widely in demand as a teacher and as a colorful and witty lecturer and guest on radio and television talk shows. For 22 years she was curator of the American Museum of Natural History.

With the publication of "Coming of Age in Samoa" (1928), her now-classic study of how young people in Samoa sailed the troubled waters of adolescence, she transformed the dull and stodgy science of anthropology into something exciting and personal. The book is still widely read, especially by students. 

Samoa at age 28

Margaret Mead was born in Philadelphia on Dec. 6, 1901, the oldest of the five children of an economics professor father and a sociologist mother.

She studied psychology at Barnard College before taking graduate work at Columbia, where she began her life-long love affair with anthropology. It was at Columbia that she came under the influence of the great Franz Boas, who was the first to suggest to her that the various cultures of the South Seas might make a fertile field for study.

Upon finishing her graduate work, she set out for Samoa at the age of 24. An admiring newspaper reporter described her as a "slender, comely girl" who danced her way into Samoan hearts. At first skeptical of the red-headed, rosy-cheeked young American, the Samoans soon made her an adopted daughter and a sort of princess.

On this and subsequent field trips, Miss Makrit Mit, as the Manu tribesmen of the Admiralt[[text cut off]] affectionately called her, lived[[text cut off]] 


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Irene Elaine Durant Atwell

Irene Elaine Durant Atwell was born in lower Manhattan on August 28, 1915. She graduated from St. Joseph's College for Women in Brooklyn where she received her A.B. degree. Thereafter, she received her M.A. degree in 17th Century English Literature from Columbia University, N.Y.C. After attaining experiences in a few social service agencies, she embarked fully into the field of Social Work upon completing her training at Fordham School of Social Work where she earned the degree of Master of Social Science.

Throughout her career she has held positions of increasing  professional responsibilities in city, state and federal agencies. She never spared herself in joining ranks with those who engaged in volunteer services in the community. Among the agencies in which she was gainfully employed as a social worker were: The Brooklyn Bureau of Social Services, the Bronx Veterans Administration and the Institute of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation - commonly designated as the Rusk Institute. Here she became the Director of the Social Service Department. At her demise she was a member of the staff of New York State Department of Health Systems and was a Social Work Consultant.

Avocationally, she worked with many of the community organizations in the Bedford-Stuyvesant area. She was one of the initial social workers with the Bedford-Stuyvesant area. She was one of the initial social workers with the Bedford-Stuyvesant Health Clinic which has developed into a very important community agency. For several months she directed the Stuyvesant Landmark Center for Senior Citizens. For many years she has been identified with the Brooklyn Home for Aged People where she served on the Board of Directors. This organization has become her pet charity - hence the appeal for donations.

Elaine is a member of the Church of St. Mark. She is also a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority. She leaves a host of relatives and friends who mourn her loss. She was blessed with a devoted husband Clyde G. Atwell, to whom she would have been married thirty-three years on her next birthday.


Lisa Arcudi's Death Saddens the Island 

Miss Lisa Gail Arcudi, daughter of Robert and DiAnn Arcudi of Oak Bluffs, was shot to death in East Bridgewater Oct. 29 by an unknown killer. She was 17 years old. The whole island was saddened by the news of her tragic death.

Miss Arcudi, who was believed to be hitchhiking at the time of her death, was born in Newton, and graduated from the Martha's Vineyard Regional High School in June, a year ahead of her own class, after doing four years' work in three. A very articulate and bright person, she was able to express her thoughts well. During her high school years she was a very creative student who was active in any aspect that concerned the theatre, and had served as chairman of the junior prom. She was on the track team and was a participant in a race at Foxboro and the All-Island Race last spring. On the Island she was Jay Schofield's running partner. In addition, she also enjoyed swimming.

Lisa was known for her friendliness, but at the same time she would do what she felt was right and not follow the crowd. She was popular with her teachers and classmates alike. 

Her real interest was centered on fashion design and modeling [[text cut off]] fall she entered the Academic [[text cut off]] in Boston. She was living with Mr. and Mrs. Richard their family as an au paire girl 

She is survived by her paternal grandparents,  Chiumento of Framingham Dominic Arcudi of Canton maternal grandmother, Lynn Uhlin of Natick; Christopher Arcudi of Oak Bluffs sisters, Miss Dawn Arcudi of and Mrs. Sharlene Petersen of Minn.; and her uncle and aunt and Gail Crosby of Studio City

A memorial service was held Wednesday at 2:30 p.m. at Episcopal Church, Vineyard with the Rev. Donald H. Ly Rev. Mason Wilson of R officiating. During the service cast of Godspell with John soloist sang Save the People choir under the direction of Wayland sang Mozart's A There were readings from by Jamie Harris and Lisa selection from Shelley.

Her family has suggested of flowers memorial gifts Robert W. Kelley, Edgartown Bank, Edgartown, for a fund which will be established name at the Regional High S[[text cut off]]


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For Mead's cut off image, see page 45.