Wednesday, March 7, 2012
Award-winning photojournalist know for works chronicling issues facing women.
Bravery comes in many forms; the courage to document the pain of others despite personal danger, the spirit of self-sacrifice to seek a better world, to fearlessly face a life-threatening condition by continuing to live a life of purpose and hope. Those were the qualities Paula Lerner brought to her work as an award-winning photojournalist and multimedia producer and to a personal struggle with an illness thought subdued but which returned. Lerner, a long-time Belmont resident and member of Beth El Temple Center, died Tuesday, March 6, 2012, at her home with her family present. Lerner, 52, died of breast cancer. "Like everything else she did in her life, Paula met this illness with a strong and beautiful soul, with great determination and …
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Monday, February 27, 2012
Belmont artist, landscape designer and business owner.
Betsey Morse Mayer, of Belmont, died unexpectedly on Feb. 11, at age of 72. Mayer died of a heart attack which took place in Vieques, Puerto Rico, where she frequently went to paint landscapes. In the course of her life she became an accomplished artist in the media of drawing, oils, watercolors and print-making. She also ran a successful business in landscape design, based in Belmont. Born in New York City, she attended there an elementary school for gifted children. From the Dalton School she matriculated at Radcliffe College in Cambridge where she majored in Fine Arts. In 1963 she married Joseph Mayer, and they soon moved to Cambridge and a few years later to Belmont with their son Daniel, born in 1973. During these years she continued…
Friday, February 3, 2012
Remembered as a true gentleman, eloquent speaker and active member of the community.
Paul Solomon feels he was privileged to be able to call Ephraim Radner his friend. Called “Eph” by many, Solomon knew the long-time and active Belmont resident for more than half a century. “He was a very dear man, a warm-hearted human being,” the former Selectman said about Radner who died at age 90 on Wednesday, Feb. 1. A service will be held for Radner today, Friday, at 10 a.m. at Beth El Temple Center, 2 Concord Ave. “Eph was modest but a very accomplished man,” Solomon said, describing his successful career as a businessman in the high-tech industry. “He was extraordinarily active and a productive and constructive member of any community he belonged to.” Radner, a longtime Douglas Road resident, was a Town Meeting member for many …
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Thursday, December 30, 2010
Belmont lost a number of notable citizens this year.
Jonathan Curtis' mother, Pamela, said her son Jonathan was a quiet person in the crowd who was never one to seek out attention. He loved animals, films and had a wonderful, and sometimes odd, sense of humor. "He was very kind, very loyal and very decisive," she said, noting he decided that his future wife, Samantha, was "the one" after knowing her for only five days. That decisiveness saved the lives of countless fellow soldiers as Curtis and Pfc. Andrew N. Meari of Plainsfield, Ill., prevented an insurgent suicide bomber from entering their outpost in Afghanistan. Curtis, 24, leaves his parents, brothers, wife and young daughter, Tessa-Marie. A teacher and respected administrator, Denis Michael Fitzpatrick was the school's assistant …
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Friday, December 3, 2010
Running 40 BAA Marathons consecutively was just one remarkable mark for a man who gave of himself to many.
While many people strive to run a single marathon, Belmont's Martin Duffy ran 40 BAA Boston Marathons … consecutively. His 40th in 2009 was memorable for all the wrong reasons. Two month before the race, Duffy was diagnosed with HPV-engendered tongue cancer. But Duffy lined up in Hopkinton on the third Monday in April last year, in the middle of his radiotherapy and chemotherapy treatment, as he did for the past five decades; despite injures, pain and, finally, the betrayal of his own body. Duffy completed the course in what would be for him a fairly pedestrian time of five and a half hours. But he did finish. Unable to run in 2010, the Cambridge Sports Union, the club that Duffy and his wife, Rusty Stieff – a 2 hour, 50 minute marathoner …
