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People and Happenings
A Celebration
for the Life of
I. F. Stone
The crusading life of progres-
sive investigative journalist
I.F. (Isidor Feinstein) Stone
(1907-1989) was recalled
and honored at a celebration
marking what would have
been his 100th birthday on
Sunday, November 16, 2008, in
Story Chapel. A large number of Stone’s family, colleagues,
friends and admirers assembled to hear tributes read by
many speakers. Among them were his daughter, poet Celia
Stone Gilbert; Jack Beatty, news analyst for NPR’s “On
Point”; Robert Giles, creator of the Nieman Foundation
for Journalism at Harvard University; Christopher Lydon,
host of radioopensource; and Anthony Lewis, former col-
umnist of the New York Times. Stone is famous for his work
as the author/editor/publisher of I.F. Stone’s Weekly and as an
editor of The Nation. The Nieman Foundation for Journal-
ism at Harvard has created an annual I.F. Stone Medal for
Journalistic Independence in his honor. I.F. Stone and his
wife Esther are buried at Mount Auburn in Lot #163 on
Walnut Avenue.
Celebrate Somerville!
A program and walk on
November 8, 2008, “Celebrate
Somerville! Some Notable
Somervillians” at Mount Au-
burn, marked the publication
of Somerville: A Brief History
(History Press, 2008) by authors
Dee Morris and Dora St.
Martin. Among the prominent
people buried here with strong
Somerville ties are: George
O. Brastow (1811-1878), the
first Mayor of Somerville (Lot
#1656, Acacia Path); Edward
Everett (1794-1865), Governor
of Massachusetts, Mayor of Boston, President of Harvard,
(Lot #17, Magnolia Avenue); Martha Perry Lowe (1829-
1902), an historian and clubwoman active in obtaining a
college education for female graduates of Somerville High
School, (Lot #2757, Mistletoe Path); Melville Parkhurst
(1842-1921), police chief, (Lot #5534, Amethyst Path);
Charles Tufts (1781-1876) , benefactor of Tufts College, (Lot
#2870, Central Avenue); and Columbus Tyler (1805-
1881) and his wife, Mary Sawyer Tyler (1806-1889),
who, as a little girl, inspired the poem “Mary Had a Little
Lamb,” (Lot #2757, Mistletoe Path).
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Bidding Bill Good-bye
People and Happenings
A black-tie dinner honoring Bill Clendaniel, who retired as
President of Mount Auburn Cemetery after 20 distinguished
years, was held at the Boston Athenaeum (left) on June
19, 2008. Earlier, on June 17, Mount Auburn’s staff and Bill’s
friends and colleagues in the historic preservation/cultural/
cemetery worlds bid him a fond farewell at an informal
catered cocktail reception on Bigelow Chapel Lawn.
Civil War enthusiasts from throughout the country who are members
of the Sons of Union Veterans visited Mount Auburn on August
7, 2008. They held a memorial service in Bigelow Chapel and also
paid their respects at the monument of Robert Gould Shaw, colonel of
the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment, the first African
American regiment to fight in the Civil War. A fleet of trolleys brought
the group of more than 100 people to the Cemetery. Their visit was
part of the annual encampment of the Sons of Union
Veterans, which, this past summer, was held in Boston.
Jim Storey Retires
as Chair of the Board
James M. (Jim) Storey of Boston,
the first Chair of the Board of
Mount Auburn Cemetery Trustees,
assumed that post in September
2005. He has been a Trustee since
1979, when he succeeded his fa-
ther, Charles Moorfield Storey, on
the Board. (Charles Moorfield Sto-
rey served as a Trustee from 1932 until 1979, and is buried
in the family lot on Excelsior Path.) Jim has had a distin-
guished legal career. He was a partner at Gaston, Snow &
Ely Bartlett, as well as at Dechert Price & Rhoads. He was
a lecturer at the Morin Center for Banking and Financial
Law at the Boston University School of Law. He served as
a trustee or director of various mutual funds; Massachusetts
Historical Society; The Signet Associates, Cambridge, MA;
and the U.S. Charitable Gift Trust. He is a former trustee or
officer of the Austen Riggs Center, Inc., Stockbridge, MA;
Earthwatch Institute, Maynard, MA; Massachusetts Society
for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children; The Park School,
Brookline, MA; Roscoe B. Jackson Memorial Laboratory,
Bar Harbor, ME; and West End House, Allston, MA. Jim
lives with his wife, Isabelle, on Beacon Hill.
Jim Roosevelt,
Among those sharing roasts and toasts at the Athenaeum were
President and CEO
Jim Storey, Chair of Mount Auburn’s Board of Trustees;
of Tufts Health
Gordon Abbot, Jr., Honorary Trustee; Richard Moylan,
Plan, with his wife,
Ann, now Chair of
President, Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, NY; Dennis
the Mount Auburn
Fiori, President, Massachusetts Historical Society; and Dave
Board of Trustees
Barnett. In addition, Michael Schaffer gave a captivating
media presentation that explored Bill’s life from boyhood to
retirement. Speakers at the lawn party included Joseph V. Roller II, President and
CEO, Cambridge Trust Company; Anne Hawley, Director, Isabella Stewart Gard-
ner Museum; landscape architect Craig Halvorson of Boston’s Halvorson Design
Partnership; Bud Hanson, Chair of the Board of Trustees, Forest Hills Cemetery,
Boston; and Trustee Ann Roosevelt. In addition, Bill was remembered with warm
anecdotes and humor by current and former Mount Auburn staff.
Bill Clendaniel has been elected an Honorary Trustee of Mount Auburn
Cemetery.
Dennis Collins, Horticultural Curator, and Natalie
Wampler, Preservation & Facilities Planner, co-led
a site tour concerning a famous New England disaster of
the past, “Seventy Years Later: The Hurricane of 1938
Re-visited,” on September 29. The tour was an excellent
example of interdepartmental collaboration, with Dennis
and Natalie taking turns describing the hurricane’s lasting
impact on our horticultural collections and built structures.
(Above) Children from the Haggerty School in Cambridge, one
of many schools that visit Mount Auburn every year, came to the
Cemetery on October 27, 2008.
(Below) An international group of Loeb Fellows from the Graduate
School of Design at Harvard with Mount Auburn President and
CEO Dave Barnett (first row, far right) on October 14, 2008
Curator of Historical Collections Meg Winslow and
Archivist Brian Sullivan hosted a group of curators and
librarians from the Boston Athenaeum for a visit to our
Historical Collections and a tour of the Cemetery grounds
in October. Also in October, Brian, assisted by Friends
Trustee and volunteer Caroline Loughlin, hosted two
large groups of Harvard University librarians. On No-
vember 6 and 13, Brian hosted two groups of Simmons
College graduate students in archival studies.
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