LONGMONT, CO. -- [From the Boulder County Business Hall of Fame]
Eight people will be inducted into the Boulder County Business Hall of Fame during a luncheon on Thursday, April 29, in Longmont. Among these are partners of Eldorado Natural Spring Water: Kevin Sipple, Doug Larson, and Jeremy Martin.

Mr. Sipple, Mr. Larson, and Mr. Martin were among those who purchased Eldorado Springs Resort properties in 1983, founding Eldorado Artesian Springs, Inc. In 2001, the company moved their main production facility to Louisville, CO. Their water source remains a natural artesian spring in Eldorado Springs, CO.

Their primary product, Eldorado Natural Spring Water, has received numerous awards over the years. Also, the trio and their company has supported hundreds of organizations and events throughout the county.

The 2010 Induction Luncheon will be held

April 29, 2010 at 11:30 a.m. at the Radisson Hotel and Conference Center in Longmont, CO.

Tickets will be available for $50 per person. Tables may be purchased for $450. Please contact Stacy Cornay at 303-651-6612 to reserve your table.

Morris County, N.J., October 30, 2007 -- [From the Daily Record]
John Sipple died Saturday, Oct. 20, 2007 in Las Vegas, Nev.

He was born in Oxford in 1920, and moved with his family to Netcong in 1927. While residing in Netcong, he was a member of the Netcong Water Board and St. Michael's R.C. Church, and was a volunteer fireman. He was employed as a draftsman at Picatinny Arsenal and retired in 1976. After retiring, he moved to Florida and then to Las Vegas.

Mr. Sipple was predeceased by his brothers, Thomas, Joseph, Edmund, and James; and his sisters, Rosemary Sipple Rowen, and Elizabeth Sipple.

He is survived by his wife of 41 years, Ann Kastner Sipple of Las Vegas; a brother, Paul Kevin Sipple of San Antonio, Tex.; and his sisters, Helen Crocoll of Pompton Plains, N.Y. Kathleen Klag of Queens Village, N.Y., Barbara Sipple OSF

of Allegheny, N.Y., Margaret Sipple of Venice, Fla. and Ann Nersesian of Hillsdale.

The date and location of a memorial service is to be determined.

TAOS, N.M., May 28, 2007 -- [From PRNewswire]
Paul "Ed" Yost, inventor of the modern hot-air balloon and celebrated aviation pioneer, whose most famous innovation fostered the sport of hot-air ballooning, died yesterday at his home in Taos, New Mexico from natural causes. He was 87.

Yost, a pioneer in many aspects of aviation, is most famous for his creation of the modern hot-air balloon. Although the idea of using a fire to heat the air inside a balloon sufficiently for manned flight was first conceived by the Montgolfier brothers in France in the late 1700s, it was Yost's onboard propane-burner system more than 150 years later that made flights of longer duration possible. Yost's invention turned modern hot-air balloons into viable and maneuverable aircraft. In addition, he further refined the modern-day balloon with other features which he patented. These include nonporous synthetic fabrics, maneuvering vents, and deflation systems for landing. Yost also designed the distinctive "teardrop" shape of the hot air balloon envelope itself -- which can be seen on the license plates of all New Mexico vehicles.

In October 1955, Yost developed and flew the first prototype of the modern hot air balloon in a tethered flight. The envelope was plastic film, and heat was provided by burning kerosene. On 22 October of 1960, Yost made the first-ever free flight of the modern hot air balloon from Bruning, Nebraska using an envelope made of a newly-developed heat-resistant fabric with heat generated by a propane burner. Yost then further refined and improved on his original designs and materials. In 1963 Yost piloted the first balloon flight across the English Channel with crew member Don Piccard in a balloon named the "Channel Champ."

In 1976, Yost set 13 aviation world's records for distance traveled and amount of time aloft in his attempt to cross the Atlantic Ocean -- solo -- by balloon. He designed and built his balloon, the "Silver Fox," in his home garage. It featured a gondola that was shaped like a boat in the event that he would be forced down at sea -- which is precisely what occurred. Although he had traveled far in excess of the distance needed to reach Europe from his launch point off the coast of Maine -- his flight path began to point South rather than the hoped-for East direction due to inaccurate weather forecasting. The dream was achieved two years later with Yost's assistance in a Yost-built balloon.

Westlake, OH, Apr. 10, 2007 --
ROSEMARY S. ROWEN (nee Sipple) age 81. Beloved wife of Allen R.; loving mother of Dorothy Shoemaker (Richard), Robert J., Christopher A. (deceased), Mary Kay Myett, Thomas P. (Michelle), Helen I. and Peter S.; dear grandmother of seven; great grandmother of ten; dear sister of John (Ann), Helen Crocoll, Kathleen Kleg, Sr. Barbara, O.S.F., Margaret, Ann Nersesian, Kevin (Marilyn), and the late Tom, Joe, Ed, James and Elizabeth Sipple; aunt and great aunt to many passed away, Tuesday, April 10, 2007.

Rosemary gifted all of her children with a lifelong love of reading.

Rosemary gave the gift of sight through eye donation.

Funeral Mass, St. Bernadette Church, 2256 Clague Rd., Westlake, Saturday, April 14, at 9:30 a.m.

Interment Monday, Pine Lake Cemetery, W. Bloomfield, MI. Friends may call in the McGorray Bros. Funeral Home of Westlake, 25620 Center Ridge Rd. Fiday 2 p.m. - 4 p.m. and 7 p.m. - 9 p.m. The family suggests memorials to the American Heart Association.

Winthrop, ME, Sept. 17, 2006 -- [Text from The Kennebec Journal]
Dr. James J. "Gus" Siragusa Jr., age 80, of Winthrop and Apopka, Fla., died peacefully at his home in Winthrop on Sunday, Sept. 17, 2006.

Born in Boston, Gus was a 1947 graduate of Harvard College and received his M.D. from Boston University School of Medicine in 1949. During the Korean War, he served as a flight surgeon for the Navy. It was during his Navy years when he met and married his beloved wife, Helen Barry Siragusa.

Gus was in private practice as an OB-GYN specialist in North Adams, Mass., and Springfield, Mass., from 1956 to 1988. During his practice, he delivered more than 6,000 babies. He culminated his career in medicine as president of the Massachusetts Medical Society, publisher of the New England Journal of Medicine, from 1987 to 1988. He served as president of the Hampden District Medical Society of which he was an active member from 1963 to 1984 and served on the boards of a number of medical organizations and foundations.

Gus was the proud father of eight children and grandfather to 12.

Surviving are his widow, Helen Siragusa of Winthrop; daughter Kathy Roberts and husband, Dan, of Palmer, Alaska; daughter Patricia Engdahl and husband, Robert, of Winthrop; daughter Barbara Moody and husband, Stan, of Manchester; son James J. Siragusa and wife, Linda, of Stow; son Laurence Siragusa and wife, Nancy, of Meriden, Conn.; daughter Mary Beth Lesko and husband, Richard, of Winthrop; son Sean Siragusa of Winthrop; and daughter Sheila Siragusa of Hatfield, Mass.

Morris County, N.J., April 23, 2006 -- [From the Daily Record]
Elizabeth J. Sipple of Jacksonville, Fla., originally of Netcong, died Tuesday, April 4, 2006. She was 71.

She was the beloved daughter of the late Peter A. and Mary K. Sipple, and loving sister of the late Thomas H.; the late Joseph P.; the late Edmund M.; John L. of Las Vegas; the late James P.; Rosemary Rowen of Westlake, Ohio; Helen S. Crocoll of Andover; P. Kevin Sipple of San Antonio; Kathleen S. Klag of Queens Village, N.Y.; Sister Barbara Sipple (O.S.F.) of Allegany, N.Y.; Margaret M. Sipple of Venice, Fla.; and Ann S. Nersesian of Hillsdale.

Elizabeth spent 20 years as a Sister of Christian Charity (Motherhouse in Mendham). She graduated from Fordham University M. Se. (Pharmacology) summa cum laude and valedictorian, taking five of 13 graduate honors.

She retired from Merck & Co. Inc. in 2001.

Memorial service on June 14, 2006, at

ALLENTOWN, PA., Jan. 28, 2001 -- [From the Allentown Morning Call]

Mr. Sipple went to Washington.

He went to the nation's capital three weeks ago to help a new president understand energy.

He joined the George W. Bush's transition team to help explain why the lights have been going out in California.

And then Peter A. Sipple came home to Emmaus last week after the inauguration. California may still be in the dark at times, but Bush and his team are more enlightened.

"It's not a sole result of restructuring the industry," he said. "It arose from the fact that there have been no major additions to power generation over the last 10 years.

"Energy demand is growing throughout the nation, and in California. But the difference in California is that there are no new plants producing power. Because of stringent environmental laws, it takes three times longer to build a new plant than in other states."

Sipple is director of energy policy at Air Products and Chemicals Inc. in Trexlertown. He's been with the company since 1964.

California utilities haven't been in the spotlight for most of Sipple's career. He's in charge of an energy supply team that provides power to 175 worldwide facilities owned by Air Products.

A Republican who has managed the campaigns of Lehigh County Commissioner Grayson McNair, Sipple was nominated by U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum to be part of a 60-member team to advise the new Bush Administration on energy issues.

While Sipple was preparing for his role with Bush, the Republican candidate's victory was stalled by the election fight in Florida.

"The transition team worked on a schedule that was shortened by 40 days," he said. "The real work got accomplished in the last two weeks ending in the inauguration, when the president was sworn in.

"The talk was about the importance of energy and how Pennsylvania, Texas and Ohio are the best models for restructuring in the country."

There was some controversy involving cabinet nominees, including energy secretary, Spencer Abraham, a former deputy to Vice President Dan Quale.

As a Michigan senator, Abraham fought to lower gas taxes and supported decreasing the

country's dependence on foreign oil by opening up portions of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

But he also co-sponsored legislation to eliminate the Energy Department.

"The media did ask him about that, and he handled it well," Sipple said. "He explained, given the situation in California alone, it has become clear about the importance of the Department of Energy."

The energy shortage in California is the former Texas governor's first crisis as president, and it comes in a state where the Republican Party has been in the dark since Ronald Reagan took the White House.

"I really have the sense that this president is not going to be driven by political interests," Sipple said. "He wants to do the right thing.

"Everybody recognizes this is an important issue. But the administration, right now, feels it should be at the state level."

With California's two top utilities near bankruptcy, Abraham extended emergency orders last week that require power and natural-gas suppliers to sell into California.

But Abraham said the orders won't be extended again, putting more pressure on legislators to meet Democratic Gov. Gray Davis' Feb. 1 deadline for passing an electricity bill. Bush said that the state can't expect any more federal help after the orders expire.

Through it all, Sipple said the California situation isn't unsolvable.

When the state deregulated the industry, the legislation had utilities divest of their power plants, he said.

"That set up a system -- unlike Pennsylvania's -- where all power is purchased at one spot at one time," Sipple said. "That drove charges up.

"The solution is that they need more capacity and a strong physical transmission system. The rules have to be changed so they can buy from others. They need diverse power sources.

"Right now, two major utilities have been absorbing the difference, and they are in deep debt. The state needs quick action."

From the state -- not Washington -- said Sipple.

Columnist Dan Shope
610-820-6530
dan.shope@mcall.com

ALLENTOWN, PA., Jan. 16, 2001 -- [From the Allentown Morning Call]

With California utilities threatening bankruptcy and the state fearing energy blackouts, President-elect George W. Bush's transition team found a glimmer of light Monday in the Lehigh Valley.

Peter A. Sipple, director of energy policy at Air Products and Chemicals Inc., Trexlertown, was asked to serve on the Bush-Cheney Energy Transition Team on the advice of Republican Sen. Rick Santorum.

Sipple, an Emmaus resident and Republican supporter, traveled to Washington, D.C., Monday after being appointed by Vice President-elect Dick Cheney to serve on the 60-member team.

Sipple was unavailable for comment Monday.

Air Products spokeswoman Beth K. Mentesana said one of the reasons for Sipple's visit is to outline Air Products' energy technologies.

Sipple runs the company's electricity supply team charged with providing low-cost, reliable electric power for more than 175 worldwide corporate facilities on an annual budget of $350 million.

He also developed a Supplier Quality

Partnership program that reduced Air Products' power costs by 2 to 3 percent for more than 10 years and was adopted by Duke Power Co., Southern Co. and Hydro Quebec.

Sipple will return to Air Products after his stint with the transition team, Mentesana said.

The new team is advising the Bush administration on issues ranging from developing a comprehensive national energy policy to the future of U.S. Department of Energy technology development programs, the company said.

"I believe Air Products is uniquely qualified to have a representative serve on the Energy Transition Team because the company is not only a major consumer of electricity and natural gas, but is also a leading developer of advanced energy technologies," Santorum wrote to Cheney.

Sipple joined Air Products in 1964 after having been a reliability engineer on the Polaris missile program for Lockheed Missile and Space Co.

Since then, he has been corporate director of electricity supply at Air Products and director of marketing of metallurgical systems. He managed two successful Republican campaigns for Lehigh County Commissioner Grayson McNair.

GREELEY, CO., July 29, 1999 -- In piece of good news, Mr. Todd Cole announced that he and Teresa Powell are to be married.

This marriage completes the wedding duties of Mr. David Sipple, the groom's adopted father, as Todd's sister, Happy, was wed last month.

"Whew!", remarked Mr. Sipple after hearing the news.

Mrs. Cole remarked, "Another wedding dress?". It is presumed she meant for the bride as wedding dress patterns are not available in Mr. Cole's size.

The bride and groom are scheduled to appear at the altar in September, 1999.

FORT COLLINS, CO., Dec. 26, 1998 -- Nearly nine years after embarking on a quest to learn about each other, Happy Cole and Lance Bennett will wed.

The good news came as a late Christmas present to Happy's mother, Dianne Cole, and her adopted father, David Sipple.

"Yahoo!", remarked Mr. Sipple

after talking with Happy and hearing the news. Mrs. Cole could not be reached for comment, but it is believed this comes as welcome news to her as well.

Mr. Sipple will have the honor of walking Ms. Cole down the aisle in July of 1999.

INTERNET, Oct. 5, 1998 -- Nearly six years after embarking on a quest to return to the skies above the aerospace field, David Sipple is finding himself again on the threshold of space.

Mr. Sipple announced late last month he has accepted a new position as a systems engineer for GTE Space Systems, working since Sept. 21 on a satellite telemetry and control project at Schriever Air Force Base, east of Colorado Springs, Co.

Mr. Sipple said the new project presents him the opportunity to add systems engineering background to his list of experience, as well as to work with cutting edge technologies in the field of satellite command and control.

The shift amounts to a career change, which comes after what Mr. Sipple called "years of work and preparation in positioning...to get back into the aerospace industry."

In the Spring of 1998, that work and preparation resulted in a Master of Engineering degree in Space Operations, studies that emphasized aerospace vehicle control.

In May 1998 Charles E. Fosha, director of the Master of Engineering Program Office at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, where Mr. Sipple earned his degree, named Mr. Sipple an Outstanding Graduate Student for 1997-98.

"It is our way of recognizing your outstanding academic scholarship and achievement," Mr. Fosha told Mr. Sipple in a letter announcing the award.

More of Mr. Sipple's work and preparations included involvement in two satellite projects in the past year and a half--both projects coordinated through the University of Colorado and U.S. Air Force Academy.

One involved development and installation of an energy-saving electrical system in a satellite project successfully launched last year.

The system, which flew aboard the satellite Falcon Gold in October 1997, represented the first major innovation in small, inexpensive spacecraft power management in 20 years.

Mr. Sipple, who conceptualized the system, delivered a paper on the technology during the 11th Annual AIAA/Utah State University Conference on Small Satellites in mid-September 1997.

Falcon Gold's electrical system innovations saved precious battery power by making and breaking power connections, regulating voltage of and distributing tiny doses of electricity to the craft's computers and communications devices.

In the second and still ongoing satellite project, Mr. Sipple has worked to design the electrical power sub-system of a new satellite project labeled FalconSat 1.

FalconSat 1 will carry two experiments: one will measure differences in static electrical charges that build up on spacecraft; the other will test a low-power transmitter designed for monitoring of deep-space probes.

INTERNET, Tuesday, Feb. 10, 1997 -- During nearly two weeks of operation before eking out its last transmission late last year, an ordinary yet "peregrine" little payload nested in the nose of a military rocket gleaned through the deluge of radio signals in outer space, re-transmitting some as data scientists say may help determine if the world's locator satellite system will stretch.

That tiny craft's findings represent a first step toward one day navigating deeper-space Earth orbits by using the backside of the Global Positioning Satellite network-a Department of Defense, worldwide radio navigation system employing 24 satellites in six Earth orbital paths. Continued. See Falcon Gold, page F1

INTERNET, Tuesday, Feb. 10, 1997 -- Not every little boy initiated into the awe of rocketry finds himself at the time standing in front of a real rocket; most must acquire their infatuations for things outer-space from books, television or the computer.

David Sipple as a little boy stood in the deserts of New Mexico and watched Nike Zeus and Nike Ajax rockets -- experimental precursors of the U.S. Pershing missile

system -- blow up on the launch pad, explode in midair seconds after launch, and sometimes soar to the heavens atop a column of white smoke.

Not all little boys, whether they see their first rocket in person or in a book or on television, dream of someday making a machine to fly in outer space. Mr. Sipple was one of the those who did.

Continued. See Boyhood dream, page F2

UTICA, NY., Oct. 22, 1997 -- [From Page One of the Sports Section]
For six decades, Catherine (Cash) Garvey was as closely identified with golf as any local athlete ever has been with any sport.

A champion player and a long-time promoter and chronicler of the game, Garvey, who died Tuesday morning at age 93, earned the right to be called the "Queen Mother of Golf" in the Mohawk Valley.
Continued. See Garvey, page C1

UTICA, NY., Oct. 22, 1997 -- [From the Utica Observer-Dispatch]
Catherine L. Garvey, 93. a resident of Presbyterian Home of CNY, passed away Tuesday, October 21, 1997 at St. Luke's Memorial Hospital Center.

Catherine was born November 22, 1903 in Utica, the daughter of Peter and Catherine (Burke) Lynch. In June 1926, she married Robert C. Garvey in Historic Old St. John's Church, Utica. He passed away in October of 1961. She was retired from the Comptroller's Office of Utica City Hall. Catherine was a communicant of the Church of Our Lady of Lourdes and a volunteer at St. Luke's Memorial Hospital Center.

Catherine was known as the "Queen Mother of Golf" in the Mohawk Valley. She won her first tournament in 1936 at Valley View Country Club and continued her distinguished career for sixty years. She was the golf writer for the was the only female member of the Golf Writers

Association of America. Surviving is a daughter and son-in-law, Patricia and Robert Dietsche, Naperville, IL; and one son and daughter-in-law, Robert and Shirley Garvey, Burlington, VT. Also surviving are ten grandchildren and 23 great-grandchildren. Catherine was predeceased by two sisters; one brother; and a grandson, Michael Dietsche.

Relatives and friends are invited to attend a Memorial Mass on Saturday at 10:30 at the Church of Our Lady of Lourdes. There will be no public visitation.

Catherine's family would like to express their thanks to the staff of the Presbyterian Home for CNY and St. Luke's Hospital for the care and compassion shown to Catherine during her stay.

Arrangements are under the direction of Nunn & McGrath Funeral Directors, 470 French Road, Utica.

BRONX,N.Y. (Aug. 5, 1997) -- Mary Beth Siragusa was received here today as a candidate for induction by the Sisters of Life, an order of nuns dedicated to the protection and enhancement of human life.

The ceremony took place during Mass in St. Frances de Chantal Church, across the street from the convent where Mary Beth will live during the early stages of profession.

Principal celebrant of the Mass was John Cardinal O’Connor, archbishop of New York, who founded the Sisters of Life in 1991.

Mary Beth was among seven young women received by the order, including one other candidate and five postulants. Cardinal O’Connor welcomed the seven to the religious community “dedicated to protecting human life and advancing a sense of sacredness of all human life, beginning with the infant in the womb.”

Cardinal O’Connor said the Sisters of Life strive to carry out their mission through prayer and “apostolic works,” such as caring for the physical and spiritual needs of women in pregnancy.

The seven inductees were presented by Mother Agnes Mary Donovan, S.V., who heads the community. She and Cardinal O’Connor presided at a luncheon in the convent garden after the ceremony.

The candidates may be accepted as postulants in several months. After another six months to a year, postulants may become novices. After two more years, they may become temporarily professed nuns. Five years later they may take their final vows.

The community is diverse, with a membership that includes five registered nurses, a psychologist, a rocket scientist, and persons talented in a variety of other ways, according to one of the nuns.

Mary Beth was supported in her candidacy by the attendance of family and friends. On hand were Dr. James J. and Helen Barry Siragusa, her parents; Margaret Jane Barry Martin, her aunt; Donald T. Barry, her uncle; James J. and Linda Siragusa, her brother and sister-in-law, with their two children, Barry and Louise; Sheila Siragusa, her sister; Sean Siragusa, her brother, with his friend, Susan Parks; and Nancy and Marty Laure, her friends.

“All fourteen of us descended on the unsuspecting nuns at the Sisters of Life Convent,” her father said about the occasion. “We rather expected a dungeon-like environment with dreary-looking ladies in black silently meandering around with all the shades drawn. What a surprise!”

He noted that a non-Catholic in his group
described her impression of the convent and its occupants as “the closest thing to Nirvana she had ever experienced. There was nothing but smiling faces in an open, cheerful environment.”
Dr. Siragusa described the setting of the convent as “upper middle class and beautiful, right on the Long Island Sound.” He added:

“Mary Beth obviously is filled with joy and has all of our prayers for success. We left feeling as if we had taken her home.”

NUTLEY, N.J., May 7, 1997 — Margaret M. Barry, 98, whose lifetime encompassed everything from the first powered flight of the Wright Brothers to the space walks of the astronauts, died May 2 in Nicholson’s Nursing Home in Winthrop, Maine.

Mrs. Barry was 4 years old when Orville and Wilbur Wright took off and maintained flight on the Outer Banks of North Carolina in 1903. Last year, her nephew, Dan Barry, twice worked outside the orbiting space shuttle Endeavour. In between, she witnessed — and wrote poetry about — the technical wonders and tragic foibles of mankind.

She was a fireside witness to four major wars — World War I, World War II and the conflicts in Korea and Vietnam. During World War I she studied nursing at All Souls Hospital in Morristown, N.J., after being orphaned by the deaths of her parents. During World War II she volunteered at an East Orange, N.J. hospital.

Mrs. Barry was born April 7, 1899 in Utica, N.Y., and lived also in New Jersey, Florida, Arizona, Massachusetts, Texas, Maine and Illinois. She was married for 60 years to Laurence A. Barry, who died in 1981.

She is survived by three daughters, Margaret Martin of Nutley, Helen Siragusa of Winthrop, and Marilyn Sipple of San Antonio, Tex.; two sons, Laurence A. Jr. of Lombard, Ill., and Donald T., of Tonawanda, N.Y.; and a sister, Catherine, of Naperville, Ill. Also surviving are 31 grandchildren and 46 great-grandchildren.

A prayer service in the S.W. Brown & Son Funeral Home here this morning was followed by Requiem Mass in St. Mary's Church. Burial was in Gate of Heaven Cemetery, East Hanover, N.J.

NUTLEY, NJ., May 7, 1997 -- The following eulogy for Margaret Mary Lynch Barry, who died May 2, 1997, was delivered today during her Requiem Mass in St. Mary's Church here.
See For Margaret..., page A2

In a stunning victory for both sides, Mr. David A. Sipple, infamous publisher of the Dave's Web Page Gazette, has accomplished a negotiated settlement, along with his negotiating nemesis, Harry the Iguana (he asks not to be referred to as a `lizard' - apparently, this is an insult to iguana intellectuals) of the Pet Gang's notorious boycott of the Gazette and their unrelenting picketing of Mr. Sipple's home (not to mention the deposits made in his garden!!).

Although the full details of the settlement will not be disclosed due to a gag order placed on the negotiators, there are already signs that the settlement has, indeed, resulted in the inclusion of several non-canine pets into the pet gallery, including Harry the Iguana, K.T. the Ferret, and Sarah the Cat (former head of the Pet Gang who was recently deposed due to some animalitically incorrect comments made in public and recorded exclusively by the Cool Shoe Times (before that darn AP got their hands on it!)).

See Publisher, page B1

April 7, 1997 -- Mrs. Margaret Mary Barry, mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother to nearly 100 descendants, was born Margaret Mary Lynch on this day, April 7, 1899 -- 98 years ago. Mrs. Barry lives in Winthrop, ME, near her daughter Helen and several of her grand-children and great- grandchildren.

Mrs. Barry has seen the amazing transformation of her country in those 98 years - the Industrial Revolution; two World Wars, the second of which took three of her six children out to sea in the Navy; the inventions of the car, the airplane, and countless other conveniences we take for granted; the Technology Revolution; the passage of the 21st Amendment to the Constitution, giving women the right to vote the year she turned 21.

Her legacy to the world includes generations of scientists, engineers, teachers, artists, writers, nurses, mothers, fathers, daughters, sons, grand and great-grandchildren. She is loved by all of them - all of us. Please wish her a Happy Birthday - afterall, without her, none of us would be here!!!

CORK, Ireland -- More than 100 years ago in this city, an enterprising Hibernian thrived on his reputation of making the best poteen in Ireland. His name was James J. Barry.

He conducted his business in a shabeen familiar to all on well-traveled Patrick Street. But, alas, both poteen and shabeens were illegal. Not to worry: The sign outside the shop read: "Barry's Tea."

Many an Irish husband put on his three-button jacket on a Sunday afternoon a century ago and left the house, saying he was going down to Patrick Street for a spot of tea.

But if he was fooling anyone, it was himself. Every wife "assuming she was blessed with a normal sense of smell" knew immediately upon his arrival home that it wasn't tea he'd been drinking.
Even in Ireland all good things must come to an end. Aye, whiskey and pubs became legal. Thus competition became fierce enough to drive most shabeens out of business.

But not the tea shop of James J. Barry. Instead of changing the sign outside his establishment, he changed the products that he made and sold inside. Aye, saints be praised, he started blending tea.

Immediately, his breakfast tea was a hit throughout County Cork, and soon it was in demand throughout this nation. Today, Barry's Irish Breakfast Tea is an international success. Visitors to Ireland from other nations took to it like bees take to nectar. (Indeed, Barry often referred to his tea as the "elixir of Eire.") Many travelers took some home with them, and created a strong demand for export.

About this time, Barry began buying and blending teas from such places as Kenya, Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda and Tanzania, perhaps because he believed those countries were provinces of China, it isn't clear. The African leaves created a tea so golden in color that Barry named his premiere brand "Gold Blend."

The color of the tea also gave rise to the company slogan, which persists today: "Every day should have its Golden moments."

Outside of Ireland, Barry's Tea is available in most better gourmet shops. It also is sold on its own Internet web site. The address is: http://www.barrystea.com.

NAPERVILLE, Ill., Feb. 27, 1997 -- In an interview last September with a reporter for the Utica (N.Y.) Observer- Dispatch, Catherine (Cash) Garvey told how she began her long career in the world of golf.

It was in 1934 while she and her husband, Robert, were living in Pennsylvania.

"My husband gave me a few old clubs and told me to take six lessons of etiquette, rules and playing," she recalled. "He said if I broke 50 by the end of summer, he'd buy me a new set of clubs."

Much to his surprise, she not only broke 50 by the end of the summer, she also broke 40, and then beat him in a round at his own game.

"He bought me the new clubs," true to his word, she related. But chagrined by losing to a member of the gentler sex, he also quit playing golf right then and there.

NAPERVILLE, Ill., Feb. 27, 1997 -- The beloved Patroness of Mohawk Valley Links has traded her familiar New York State golf courses for a putting carpet in the living room of a Naperville home.

She is Catherine (Cash) Garvey, a dis- tinguished member of the Greater Utica Sports Hall of Fame, a nationally known golf tournament organizer, a champion golfer in her own right, a diligent teacher of the game, and a veteran sportswriter.

Outside of the Upstate New York country club circles she is equally loved as Mom to her daughter, Pat Dietsche of Naperville, and son, Bob, of Burlington, Vt.; as a younger sister to Margaret Barry of Winthrop, Maine; as Aunt Cash to Margaret's children, and to the children who survive her brother, Ed Lynch, and sister, Winifred Perry; and as Grandma and Great-Grandma to dozens of others.

Last fall, Cash Garvey moved to Naperville from Utica, N.Y., to live here with Pat Dietsche, Pat's husband, Bob, and the Dietsche's woolly dog, Bear. Comfortable in a corner of the living room, surrounded by golf memorabilia, she is spry and lucid despite her age. She will celebrate her 94th birthday on Nov. 22.

On Feb. 16 she was visited by two of her nephews, Larry Barry of nearby Lombard, and Don Barry of Tonawanda, N.Y. The nephews had not seen her since 1970. It also was the first time the visitors had seen cousin Pat since they were all children.

The reunion began with joyful embraces, and was followed by wide-ranging conversation about families and, of course, days gone by. Cash's memory of names, places and events was phenomenal, the Barry brothers agreed. They said that she looked "years younger" and "as lovely as ever."

Cash covered golf and wrote a golf column for the Utica newspapers for 25 years, and at one time was the only female member of the Golf Writers Association of America.

She has to her credit 12 club, eight City of Utica, four Mohawk Valley Open, and two Oneida County championships. From 1960 to 1984, she directed Utica's Jenny Open Golf Tournament, sponsored by Genesee Beer, and cajoled some of the nation's top talent into competing. It was in 1992 that her career was capped by her induction into the Sports Hall of Fame.

LOMBARD, Ill., Feb. 17, 1997 -- Eileen Therese Barry and Joseph Robert Fanella were married Feb. 15 in St. Pius X Church here in a ceremony that was largely a family affair.

The bride is the daughter of Laurence A. and Margaret (Peggy) Barry of Lombard. The bridegroom is the son of Robert and Joanne Fanella of Wheaton, Ill.

Among those participating in the wedding were four of the bride's sisters: Margaret (Peggy) Frackman, matron of honor; Colleen Sierra and Maureen VanScoit, bridesmaids; and Elaine Barry, soloist. Laurence A. Barry Jr., brother of the bride, was a groomsman.

Three sisters of the bridegroom also took part: Donna Gioia, bridesmaid; Nancy Sporer, who did the first reading during Mass; and Karen Onorato, who did the second reading. Two brothers of the bridegroom, John and Ken Fanella, were groomsmen. Lisa Sporer, a niece of the bridegroom, presided at the singing of the Responsorial Psalm. Matthew Onorato, godson of the bridegroom, led the Prayer of the Faithful. Craig Fanella, son of the bridegroom, was ring bearer. Shannon Fanella, daughter of the bride and bridegroom, was flower girl. Florence Hiller, godmother of the bridegroom, and Mary Rogas and Robert Phelps, godparents of the bride, presented the gifts during Mass. The Rev. Herb Essig, pastor of the church, was celebrant.

In a fitting finish to the rituals, Shannon was swooped up in her father's arms and became part of the triumphant trio that marched down the aisle to the recessional fanfare.

A reception for 250 persons was held at The Terrace, a fashionable restaurant here.