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Default Katherine Johnson Dies at 101; Mathematician Broke Barriers at NASA



They asked Katherine Johnson for the moon, and she gave it to them.

She was one of a group of black women mathematicians at NASA and its predecessor who were celebrated in the 2016 movie “Hidden Figures.”

By Margalit Fox
Feb. 24, 2020, 10:14 a.m. ET


Wielding little more than a pencil, a slide rule and one of the finest mathematical minds in the country, Mrs. Johnson, whose death at 101 was announced on Monday by NASA, calculated the precise trajectories that would let Apollo 11 land on the moon in 1969 and, after Neil Armstrong’s history-making moonwalk, let it return to Earth.

A single error, she well knew, could have dire consequences for craft and crew. Her impeccable calculations had already helped plot the successful flight of Alan B. Shepard Jr., who became the first American in space when his Mercury spacecraft went aloft in 1961.

The next year, she likewise helped make it possible for John Glenn, in the Mercury vessel Friendship 7, to become the first American to orbit the Earth.

Yet throughout Mrs. Johnson’s 33 years in NASA’s Flight Research Division — the office from which the American space program sprang — and for decades afterward, almost no one knew her name.

Mrs. Johnson was one of several hundred rigorously educated, supremely capable yet largely unheralded women who, well before the modern feminist movement, worked as NASA mathematicians.

But it was not only her sex that kept her long marginalized and long unsung: Katherine Coleman Goble Johnson, a West Virginia native who began her scientific career in the age of Jim Crow, was also African-American.

In old age, Mrs. Johnson became the most celebrated of the small cadre of black women — perhaps three dozen — who at midcentury served as mathematicians for the space agency and its predecessor, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics.

Their story was told in the 2016 Hollywood film “Hidden Figures,” based on Margot Lee Shetterly’s nonfiction book of the same title, published that year. The movie starred Taraji P. Henson as Mrs. Johnson, the film’s central figure. It also starred Octavia Spencer and Janelle Monáe as her real-life colleagues Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson.

In January 2017 “Hidden Figures” received the Screen Actors Guild Award for outstanding performance by a cast in a motion picture.


Katherine Johnson, part of a small group of African-American women mathematicians who did crucial work at NASA, in 1966. Credit: NASA/Donaldson Collection, via Getty Images

A complete obituary will be published by the New York Times shortly.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/24/s...nson-dead.html
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Barbara Harris, First Woman Ordained an Episcopal Bishop, Dies at 89

Her groundbreaking election angered many conservatives. She even received death threats.


The Rt. Rev. Barbara Harris at St. Paul’s Episcopal Cathedral in Boston in 1998. As a preacher she could electrify a congregation.Credit...Tom Herde/The Boston Globe, via Getty Images

By Emily Brennan
March 17, 2020

The Rt. Rev. Barbara C. Harris, who was the first woman to be ordained a bishop in the Episcopal Church of the United States — indeed, in its parent body, the worldwide Anglican Communion — an election that caused a furor among conservatives, died on Friday in Lincoln, Mass., outside Boston. She was 89.

Her death, at a hospice, was confirmed in a statement by the bishop of the Diocese of Massachusetts, the Rt. Rev. Alan M. Gates. He did not give a cause.

Ms. Harris served as suffragan, or assistant, bishop of the Massachusetts diocese from 1989 until her retirement in 2002, and in some ways she was an unlikely candidate for the role. She had neither a bachelor’s nor a seminary degree, and she was divorced — a profile that some critics said made her unfit for election, regardless of gender. Others feared that she was too progressive for the church.

An African-American, she went on to challenge the Episcopal hierarchy to open its doors wider to women as well as to black and gay people.

Her election in 1988 caused turmoil both in the Episcopal Church and in the Anglican Communion, an international family of 46 autonomous churches that includes the Church of England.

Some Episcopalians, objecting to her political views and theological stances, declared that they would not recognize her position and campaigned against her.

She even faced death threats. For her consecration as bishop, on Feb. 11, 1989, at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston, the Boston police offered her a bulletproof vest to wear. Ms. Harris declined.

Years later, in a 2002 interview with the National Visionary Leadership Project, she shrugged off the furor. “Nobody can hate like Christians,” she said.

She often criticized the church as being too dogmatic — as worrying over the particulars of canon law instead of preaching inclusivity, a truer reflection of Christ’s teachings, she believed.

At a church service sponsored by an L.G.B.T. advocacy group, Integrity U.S.A., in 2009, Ms. Harris — who could electrify a congregation with her gravelly, stentorian voice — asked worshipers, “If indeed God, who doeth all things well, is the creator of all things, how can some things be more acceptable to the creator than others?”

She paused, as applause overtook her words, then continued, “If God is the creator of all persons, then how can some people be more acceptable to God than others?”

In a church whose parishioners have included about a quarter of American presidents and business titans like J.P. Morgan and Henry Ford, Ms. Harris pressed for the integration of historically segregated parishes — she was an early member of the Union of Black Episcopalians, founded in 1968 — and called for greater numbers of women in the clergy. In 2003 she supported the election of Bishop V. Gene Robinson, the first openly gay bishop in the church.

His election dramatically widened a longstanding divide between theological liberals and conservatives at a time when the church was seeing Sunday attendance drop by 23 percent from 2000 to 2010. In 2009, conservatives who felt alienated from the church, chiefly over the ordination of gay people, founded a small rival denomination, the Anglican Church in North America.

The Episcopal Church was led by a woman, the Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori, until 2015, when Michael B. Curry became the church’s first African-American presiding bishop. A majority of the Communion’s member churches now ordain women.

But in 1976, when the Episcopal Church decided to ordain women, it was only the third member church to do so. The Church of England did not allow women to become priests until 1992, and bishops not until 2014. The move upended centuries of tradition holding that bishops had to be male because they belonged to an unbroken line of successors of the 12 apostles, all of them men.

Several congregations withdrew from the church in part because of that decision.


Ms. Harris during her consecration as an Episcopal bishop at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston in 1989. She was the first woman in the United States to be elevated to that position. Credit...Peter Southwick/Associated Press

Barbara Clementine Harris was born on June 12, 1930, in Philadelphia, the middle of three children. Her father, Walter Harris, was a steelworker, and her mother, Beatrice (Price) Harris, was an organist at the family’s parish, St. Barnabas Church. (It later merged with another parish, St. Luke’s.) Ms. Harris studied the piano, learning to play dozens of hymns by heart.

She is survived by her brother, Thomas. Her sister, Josephine White, died.

After graduating from Philadelphia High School for Girls in 1948, Ms. Harris attended Charles Morris Price School of Advertising and Journalism and entered public relations, ultimately becoming a manager in 1968 for Sun Oil Co.

Active in civil rights, she traveled to Mississippi to register voters in 1964 and the next year marched with the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. from Selma to Montgomery, Ala.

All the while she prepared herself for ordination, studying at Villanova University and the Urban Theology Unit in Sheffield, England. When three retired Episcopal bishops at her parish, the Church of the Advocate in Philadelphia, ordained 11 women in 1974 — two years before the church had authorized such an action — Ms. Harris was the cross bearer in the procession.

Ms. Harris was ordained a priest in 1980, served at St. Augustine of Hippo Church, a small parish in Norristown, Pa., and was a prison chaplain. She reached a wider audience through her speaking and writing on behalf of racial justice and in opposition to apartheid in South Africa.

Writing in 1984 in The Witness, an Episcopal journal of which she was publisher, she said the church was wasting its energy debating the ordination of women.

“How typical of this church and the society it reflects to get its adrenaline flowing over nonissues like irregularity versus validity,” she wrote, “while real issues go unaddressed — justice, power, authority, shared mission and ministry and wholeness in the body of Christ.’’

The Rev. John P. Streit Jr. of the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts, who served alongside Ms. Harris at the Cathedral of St. Paul, said social justice had been not just a sermon topic for Ms. Harris; it was the organizing principle of her work, he said, most apparent in her ministry to the homeless people around Boston Common.

“She connects with them, and they connect her,” he said — and not just because they knew that she, an inveterate smoker, could be hit up for a cigarette.

Mr. Streit recalled Ms. Harris once speaking of her confirmation ceremony at the historically black parish of St. Barnabas. The diocesan bishop, who was white, she remembered, wore Episcopal gloves to perform the rite. Though that practice was not unheard-of, it made her wonder whether the bishop had done so to avoid touching her and the other black children.

That episode stood in sharp contrast to how Bishop Harris confirmed children, Mr. Streit said. She would lay her bare hands on their heads, cup their cheeks and look them in the eyes.

Julia Carmel contributed reporting.
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Terrence McNally, playwright and screenwriter, and 4-time Tony Award winner, as well as the 2019 Lifetime Achievement Award died from complications due to COVID-19 on March 24, 2020. He was also inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame and the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He was responsible for works such as
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Barbara Harris, First Woman Ordained an Episcopal Bishop, Dies at 89

Her groundbreaking election angered many conservatives. She even received death threats.


The Rt. Rev. Barbara Harris at St. Paul’s Episcopal Cathedral in Boston in 1998. As a preacher she could electrify a congregation.Credit...Tom Herde/The Boston Globe, via Getty Images

By Emily Brennan
March 17, 2020

The Rt. Rev. Barbara C. Harris, who was the first woman to be ordained a bishop in the Episcopal Church of the United States — indeed, in its parent body, the worldwide Anglican Communion — an election that caused a furor among conservatives, died on Friday in Lincoln, Mass., outside Boston. She was 89.

Her death, at a hospice, was confirmed in a statement by the bishop of the Diocese of Massachusetts, the Rt. Rev. Alan M. Gates. He did not give a cause.

Ms. Harris served as suffragan, or assistant, bishop of the Massachusetts diocese from 1989 until her retirement in 2002, and in some ways she was an unlikely candidate for the role. She had neither a bachelor’s nor a seminary degree, and she was divorced — a profile that some critics said made her unfit for election, regardless of gender. Others feared that she was too progressive for the church.

An African-American, she went on to challenge the Episcopal hierarchy to open its doors wider to women as well as to black and gay people.

Her election in 1988 caused turmoil both in the Episcopal Church and in the Anglican Communion, an international family of 46 autonomous churches that includes the Church of England.

Some Episcopalians, objecting to her political views and theological stances, declared that they would not recognize her position and campaigned against her.

She even faced death threats. For her consecration as bishop, on Feb. 11, 1989, at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston, the Boston police offered her a bulletproof vest to wear. Ms. Harris declined.

Years later, in a 2002 interview with the National Visionary Leadership Project, she shrugged off the furor. “Nobody can hate like Christians,” she said.

She often criticized the church as being too dogmatic — as worrying over the particulars of canon law instead of preaching inclusivity, a truer reflection of Christ’s teachings, she believed.

At a church service sponsored by an L.G.B.T. advocacy group, Integrity U.S.A., in 2009, Ms. Harris — who could electrify a congregation with her gravelly, stentorian voice — asked worshipers, “If indeed God, who doeth all things well, is the creator of all things, how can some things be more acceptable to the creator than others?”

She paused, as applause overtook her words, then continued, “If God is the creator of all persons, then how can some people be more acceptable to God than others?”

In a church whose parishioners have included about a quarter of American presidents and business titans like J.P. Morgan and Henry Ford, Ms. Harris pressed for the integration of historically segregated parishes — she was an early member of the Union of Black Episcopalians, founded in 1968 — and called for greater numbers of women in the clergy. In 2003 she supported the election of Bishop V. Gene Robinson, the first openly gay bishop in the church.

His election dramatically widened a longstanding divide between theological liberals and conservatives at a time when the church was seeing Sunday attendance drop by 23 percent from 2000 to 2010. In 2009, conservatives who felt alienated from the church, chiefly over the ordination of gay people, founded a small rival denomination, the Anglican Church in North America.

The Episcopal Church was led by a woman, the Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori, until 2015, when Michael B. Curry became the church’s first African-American presiding bishop. A majority of the Communion’s member churches now ordain women.

But in 1976, when the Episcopal Church decided to ordain women, it was only the third member church to do so. The Church of England did not allow women to become priests until 1992, and bishops not until 2014. The move upended centuries of tradition holding that bishops had to be male because they belonged to an unbroken line of successors of the 12 apostles, all of them men.

Several congregations withdrew from the church in part because of that decision.


Ms. Harris during her consecration as an Episcopal bishop at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston in 1989. She was the first woman in the United States to be elevated to that position. Credit...Peter Southwick/Associated Press

Barbara Clementine Harris was born on June 12, 1930, in Philadelphia, the middle of three children. Her father, Walter Harris, was a steelworker, and her mother, Beatrice (Price) Harris, was an organist at the family’s parish, St. Barnabas Church. (It later merged with another parish, St. Luke’s.) Ms. Harris studied the piano, learning to play dozens of hymns by heart.

She is survived by her brother, Thomas. Her sister, Josephine White, died.

After graduating from Philadelphia High School for Girls in 1948, Ms. Harris attended Charles Morris Price School of Advertising and Journalism and entered public relations, ultimately becoming a manager in 1968 for Sun Oil Co.

Active in civil rights, she traveled to Mississippi to register voters in 1964 and the next year marched with the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. from Selma to Montgomery, Ala.

All the while she prepared herself for ordination, studying at Villanova University and the Urban Theology Unit in Sheffield, England. When three retired Episcopal bishops at her parish, the Church of the Advocate in Philadelphia, ordained 11 women in 1974 — two years before the church had authorized such an action — Ms. Harris was the cross bearer in the procession.

Ms. Harris was ordained a priest in 1980, served at St. Augustine of Hippo Church, a small parish in Norristown, Pa., and was a prison chaplain. She reached a wider audience through her speaking and writing on behalf of racial justice and in opposition to apartheid in South Africa.

Writing in 1984 in The Witness, an Episcopal journal of which she was publisher, she said the church was wasting its energy debating the ordination of women.

“How typical of this church and the society it reflects to get its adrenaline flowing over nonissues like irregularity versus validity,” she wrote, “while real issues go unaddressed — justice, power, authority, shared mission and ministry and wholeness in the body of Christ.’’

The Rev. John P. Streit Jr. of the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts, who served alongside Ms. Harris at the Cathedral of St. Paul, said social justice had been not just a sermon topic for Ms. Harris; it was the organizing principle of her work, he said, most apparent in her ministry to the homeless people around Boston Common.

“She connects with them, and they connect her,” he said — and not just because they knew that she, an inveterate smoker, could be hit up for a cigarette.

Mr. Streit recalled Ms. Harris once speaking of her confirmation ceremony at the historically black parish of St. Barnabas. The diocesan bishop, who was white, she remembered, wore Episcopal gloves to perform the rite. Though that practice was not unheard-of, it made her wonder whether the bishop had done so to avoid touching her and the other black children.

That episode stood in sharp contrast to how Bishop Harris confirmed children, Mr. Streit said. She would lay her bare hands on their heads, cup their cheeks and look them in the eyes.

Julia Carmel contributed reporting.
I forget how I know this, but my two god-mothers were sisters and they attended a Presbyterian church for years, while their other family members attended an Episcopalian church.. Somewhere in there, during the time Barbara Harris was the first woman to be ordained by the Episcopalian church, my god-mother's said that they actually followed her ascent within that church and would talk about how members of their Presbyterian church were influenced by Barbara Harris: the way she spoke to then-current social and religious issues in her oratorical deliveries. I think they actually sat in on a service back east, when they came back from England and visited relatives on the east coast (this was back in the early 1990s).

In fact, my two elderly god-mothers would often recite the same phrase in the article you posted ( “If God is the creator of all persons, then how can some people be more acceptable to God than others?”).

I think Barbara Harris influenced them a lot, even though they were not Episcopalian.

Thanks for you post about a Barbara Harris, Orema.
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Phyllis Lyon, one of the founding mothers of the Lesbian Movement, passed away at the age of 95 on April 9. Lyon, along with Del Martin, co-founded The Daughters of Bilitis, which was the first national lesbian group in the United States, although it began as just a secretive group of eight friends. Lyon and Martin became publicly known as lesbian activists, and with The Daughters of Bilitis published The Ladder, a lesbian magazine. Lyon was also an author and journalist. In 2008, Lyon and Martin married, becoming the first legally recognized gay union in California. (They were married by then-San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, now the governor of California.)

Del Martin passed away August 27, 2008.
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Brian Dennehy has died at age 81. According to news sources (cnn.com), Mr. Dennehy died of natural causes. I remember him from waaay back, in some of my earlier favorite movies, like "First Blood", which was the first Sylvester Stallone "Rambo" film in the series.

RIP Mr. Dennehy, you will be missed.

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RIP Roy Horn ~ of Siegfried & Roy dies of the Coronavirus.
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RIP "Little Richard" Richard Wayne Penniman ~ He brought us years of entertainment great songs that are legendary ~ rest well you must be exhausted !
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ocean, I agree, Little Richard was and is one of my favorite entertainers. He was brilliant and talented and certainly different than "Doggy in the Window". I proudly bought one of his original vinyls then another, then another. I bought a movie with him at the beginning along with other stars. "The Girl Can't Help It". If you get a chance to see it all the original founders of rock and roll are in it and stars Jayne Mansfield, Marihka Hagartays daughter. My spelling is atrocious, sorry.
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I was lucky to see him perform. He had so much energy and we sang every song. It was a blast to have him end a wonderful day to a pride event in California. Good times with Little Richard.
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I got tickets years ago to see stars in concert and the only one who was a no show was Little Richard. Thats who I went to see LOL. I truly was disappointed as he did not come to Canada other than that as far as I know.

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RIP another death for R&B legends ~ Betty Wright great R&B singer ~ died of cancer ~ songs include "Clean Up Woman , No Pain , No Gain ".
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RIP Jerry Stiller died of natural causes
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Mary Pratt, pitcher on the original 1943 Rockford Peaches team, dies at 101
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My heart goes out to Melissa Etheridge and her family.

A heartbreaking loss. Melissa Etheridge and ex Julie Cypher’s son, Beckett, has died at the age of 21.

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