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In The News...
Renowned urban planner, wife commit suicide
David Wallace, 87, and his wife Joan were 'seriously
ill,' police say. An award-winning architect and planner, Wallace
was known for his innovative work in major cities
by MICHAEL J. MISHAK
The bodies of award-winning architect and urban planner
David A. Wallace and his wife, who both had apparently committed
suicide, were discovered on Monday morning, July 19, in their Chestnut
Hill home, police said.
Public Affairs officer Sheila Smith, told the Local the couple had been "seriously ill.” Wallace,
87, a founding partner of the renowned urban design firm Wallace
Roberts & Todd LLC, suffered from prostate cancer. His wife,
Joan, 83, had heart disease. Her health had reportedly worsened
last week.
A hospice worker found the couple at around 11 a.m.
when...
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In Sports...
CHC secures first summer victory
by TOM UTESCHER
After dropping a number of close games in Malvern League
summer basketball, Chestnut Hill College notched its first victory of
the warm-weather campaign, holding off Ursinus College last Thursday,
46-43.
Power forward Kate Quintus and shooting guard Bethanne
Castone paced the Griffins with 14 and 11 points, respectively. Kelly
McGrath contributed five points while Andrea Carter and Amy Ciaburri
put up four apiece.
The opposing ballclub, Ursinus, is coached by Jim Buckley,
who was a teacher and girls basketball coach at Germantown Academy for
many years.
The Bears moved out to a 6-0 lead in Thursday’s tilt
before Quintus put in the rebound of her own shot to give the Griffs
their first points about five minutes into the fray. Chestnut..
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In LocalLife...
Violinist using music to heal Mt. Airy hero
organizes concert for flood victims
by LEN LEAR
When Richard Casimir, 41, was growing up in Haiti,
the most impoverished country in the Western hemisphere, he began
taking lessons on the violin and playing for his school orchestra,
even though his father insisted “that we were crazy to
spend our time playing music. That was for rich people.”
The odds that a boy from Haiti, where violins are
almost as scarce as astronauts, could wind up as a professional
classical musician were about as great as those of a newspaper
editor playing center field for the Phillies. However, Richard
is not a man you want to bet against. He has made a habit of
defying the odds.
In 1976, the Boston Symphony Orchestra visited
Haiti and heard Richard...
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