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[edit] Partners In Care
Partners In Care is community nonprofit organization based in Severna Park, Maryland.
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The stated mission of the organization follows:
| “ | Partners In Care is a community nonprofit organization helping older and disabled adults remain independent in their own homes. Operating since 1993 and currently embracing 2400 members, Partners In Care uses a service exchange concept as the foundation for its network of support for seniors. The objective is to build community by engaging people to help each other with the myriad tasks involved in everyday living. Neighbors volunteer their time and talent to help each other live with dignity and indepenence. | ” |
[edit] History
In 1991, three Severna Park friends finished work on their graduate degrees with the thought of "doing something together for older adults." Maureen Cavaiola and Sandra Jackson received their master’s degrees in adulthood and aging from the College of Notre Dame in Baltimore. At the same time, Mrs. Cavaiola’s sister, Barbara Huston, completed her work for a master’s in health care administration at the University of Maryland. They decided to create "Partners in Care," a program that would enable seniors and disabled people to remain in their homes with the help of volunteer friends and neighbors who do errands and household duties for them. It would be the first program that matched the volunteer to an individual who needed assistance in Maryland. Before they could get the program into operation, they had to look for funding sources, a job that took two years. They received a "start-up" grant of $15,000 from the Jacob and Anita France Foundation and the Robert F. and Anne M. Merrick Foundation. To this was added a three-year $45,000 challenge grant from the same foundations, which was matched two-to-one in money and services by North Arundel Hospital. They also received a donation from the Severna Park Kiwanis Club. The group set up in an office in North Arundel Hospital and started finding volunteers to help in the program. The primary focus was on the need for transportation, seniors who could not get to doctors or to stores to pick up groceries needed someone who would drive them. There was also a need for light household work and small repairs like changing light bulbs or hanging curtains. This system was set up so the volunteers could earn "credit hours," which they could store up for their own future needs or donate to someone else. In other words, every hour of volunteer time given to a senior client can be used as credit. The system would only deal with time. There was no money involved.
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[edit] Freedom Park, Omaha, Nebraska
Freedom Park in Omaha has a navy museum with permanent displays of the USS Marlin SST2, the USS Hazard AM240, an LSM45, and an A-4 Skyhawk. The park also features planes, guns, missiles, torpedoes and bombs.
Freedom Park 2497 Freedom Park Road Omaha, NE 68110-2745 United States
Experience the beauty of some of the military's finest defense equipment. Freedom Park displays and preserves vital parts of US. military history. As a National Historic Landmark, the park is home to the Douglas A-4D Skyhawk, a strike fighter jet dating back to the mid-1950s. Visitors can also step onto the USS Marlin, a retired Navy submarine that was once docked in Guantanamo Bay. The park also has a propeller and anchor garden as well as an ASROC Missile Launcher and additional items on display.
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[edit] MV Dunnottar Castle
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Ship name=MV Donnottar Castle | Ship namesake=Dunnottar Castle, Scotland | Ship class=Passenger Liner | Ship ordered=Union-Castle Line | Ship builder=Harland & Wolff, Belfast | Ship laid down=30 April 1943 | Ship launched=30 August 1943 | |
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| Displacement: | 15,007 gt | ||||||||||
| Length: | 560 ft (174.53 m) overall | ||||||||||
| Beam: | 71.9 ft (21.92 m) | ||||||||||
| Propulsion: | Two B & W. 11,200 bhp two-stroke double acting marine diesels. Twin screw. | ||||||||||
| Speed: | 18 knots (34 km/h) | ||||||||||
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285 first class passengers |
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1939 Converted to Armed Merchant Cruiser |
Ship commissioned=4 December 1943 | Ship decommissioned=1 October 1972
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| Name: | SS Victoria | ||||||||||
| Fate: | scrapped 1983 | ||||||||||
On 25 January 1936, MV Dunnottar Castle was launched at the Harland & Wolff yard at Belfast. Built for Union-Castle Line for the London to Cape Town service, she was delivered in 27 June 1936. She sailed as a passenger liner for a remarkable 68 years. She was built as an Intermediate steamer of 15,007 GRT carrying 258 first class and 250 tourist class passengers, with a crew of 250. She entered service on the mail run while the other ships were being refurbished. She took her name after Dunnottar Castle, a ruined castle on the northeast coast of Scotland.
She departed on her maiden voyage from Southampton to Cape Town in July 1936, and upon her return to the UK, commenced her regular London-Suez-South Africa- St. Helena-London service. In September, her sister ship MV Dunvegan Castle joined her.
[edit] World War II service
With the outbreak of the Second World War, on 28th August 1939 she was requisitioned by the British Royal Navy for war service as an Armed merchant cruiser. She was renamed HMS Donnottar Castle and she started her first tour of duty on October 14, 1939, serving with the South Atlantic patrols.
In 1942, more purpose-built cruisers entered service, so she was released and converted into a troopship and on 5 April 1942 she carried engineers of the British Army to Tristan da Cunha for the construction of a meteorological and wireless station. In 1944, she shuttled troops between Southampton and Normandy for the allied invasion of Western Europe. In 1948, after carrying over 250,000 men and sailing over a quarter of a million miles, she was released from troop service and decommissioned from the Royal Navy.
[edit] Post War
She was returned to commercial service in 1948 and, after a refurbishment by Harland & Wolff, on February 10, 1949 she resumed deployment on the clockwise Round Africa service for Union-Castle Line. Her Ports of call were London, Gibraltar, Algiers, Port Said, Massawa, Aden, Mombasa, Zanzibar, Dar-es-salaam, Tanga, Beira, Lourenco Marques, Durban, East London, Port Elizabeth, Cape Town, Walvis Bay, Las Palmas (Canary Islands), Casablanca, Lisbon, London. London-Suez-South Africa-London.
By 1958, the demand for liners like MV Dunnottar Castle had began to diminish and after 94 voyages she was offered for sale.
[edit] MV Victoria
Template:Infobox Ship In 1958 she was sold to Liberian registered, Italian operated Incres Line. On 16 January, 1959 she was towed to Flushing in the Netherlands for a total rebuilding as cruise ship by the Wilton-Fijenoord yard, Schiedam. Her original Burmeister &Wain engines were replaced by new FIAT diesels All cabins now with private facilities, fully air-conditioned. 600 passengers, one class. Decor by a leading Italian designer. Bow stretched and raked. a new superstructure, a new funnel with mast, and a striking new raked bow. The only original parts of the ship left were the hull and inner portion of her upper superstructure. Her interior was styled by the Italian mid-century design master Gustavo Pulitzer Finale and she was considered to be one of the most modern ships of her day. Upon completion the traditional Union-Castle profile of Dunnottar Castle had been transformed into the sleek, deluxe cruise ship MV Victoria.
In 1964, she was sold to Victoria SS Co, Monrovia, a subsidiary of Swedish Clipper Line, Malmo. She retained both her name and service. Incres Line continued as agents for the ship. Victoria as a cruise ship was greatly admired, and for the next eleven years she continued cruising from New York to the Caribbean.
length 174,4 m). Masts replaced by two derricks of foredeck. New Fiat diesel-engines (16.800 hp for max.21 kn). 14.917 GRT.
B&W 9,500 BHP two stroke diesels by FIAT capable of 16,800 BHP which increased her service speed from 15 knots to 18 knots.
She was now 14,917 gross ton, 573 ft long by 72 ft wide vessel with
[edit] MV The Victoria
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In 1975, after fifteen years of service in the United States, Chandris Lines purchased Victoria. Chandris considered her as the perfect all round cruise ship. She was refitted, her capacity increased from 430 to 548 passengers, and with new funnel markings and a blue ribbon around her hull, she given the slightly amended name of The Victoria. She recommenced her duties in June 1976, and cruised for Chandris both in the Caribbean and the Mediterranean until 1993.
[edit] MV Princesa Victoria
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In 1993 Chandris sold The Victoria to Louis Cruise Lines, a company that had operated Mediterranean cruises from Cyprus for some time. Louis Cruise Lines registered their new acquisition in Limassol, Cyprus as MV Princesa Victoria. For the next ten or so years she was kept in excellent condition as she cruised the Mediterranean from Limassol to Egypt and Israel.
By now her nearly 60-year-old hull and forty-year-old machinery were in need of expensive maintenance, and she was believed to be the oldest large cruise ship over 10000grt still in passenger service. Following a decline in European tourism caused by the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, she was laid up at Eleusis, Greece.
Princesa Victoria was sold to the breakers in April 2004. Under the delivery name Victoria I, she sailed from Greece in the spring of 2004, arriving at Alang, India on May 25, 2004. She was beached on August 2, 2004 and demolition began September 1, 2004.
[edit] See also
- xList of ship launches in 1936
Dunnottar Castle Dunnottar Castle
[edit] Carol Wald
Carol S. Wald (January 21, 1935 - September 8, 2000) was an American artist who was also widely known for her talents as an illustrator. Her collages and paintings appeared in Time, Fortune. and Ms, and on the covers of Business Week, the New York Times Sunday Magazine, and Saturday Review.
Carol Wald was born in Detroit, Michigan where she began studying art at age twelve. At age sixteen, while still a student at Cass Technical High School in Detroit, her talent was recognized by the mayor of Detroit, Albert Cobo, and in 1954 was awarded a four year scholarship at the Art School of the Society of Arts and Crafts in Detroit. In 1960, the Detroit Institute of Arts purchased one of her paintings, "Children On Stilts".
In 1963, she studyied under Ben Shahn at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, Maine, and in 1967, she studied at the Cranbrook Educational Community in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.
In 1964 she was given a ten-year retrospective exhibition at the Flint Institute of Arts in Flint, Michigan.
By 1970 the National Gallery of Art and the Minnesota Museum of American Art had each purchased paintings by her for their permanent collections.
In 1971 she left Detroit for New York City, where she emerged as one of the nation's top illustrators and in 1975 she was awarded a gold medal for editorial illustration from the Society of Illustrators in New York. In 1976, She was commissioned by the Ford administration to paint America's official Bicentennial painting.
In the 1980s, a class reunion organizer for Cass Tech put her in touch with fellow alumni, the filmmaker Hermann Tauchert. They had actually met in high school 25 years earlier, when they had dated each other's friends. Romance bloomed and for two or three years, they conducted a long-distance love affair, with Tauchert in Detroit and Wald in New York. But finally in 1986, Wald moved back to Detroit and they married.
In 1990, worried about the high levels of crime in Detroit, they moved to Burlington, Ontario.
In 1997 Wald was diagnosed with cancer, and three years later she died in the Ian Anderson House, Oakville on 8 September, 2000.
The Cranbrook Academy of Art, located just outside Detroit, will be the repository of Wald's collections and writings.
[edit] Works Held in Permanent Collections
- The National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.
- The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI.
- Dennos Museum Center at Northwestern Univeristy, Traverse City, MI.
- The Minneapolis Museum of Art, St. Paul, MN.
- Utah Museum of Fine Arts at Utah University, Salt Lake City, UT.
- The Museum of American Illustration, New York, NY.
- Newport Performing Arts Center, Newport, OR.
- The Gerald R. Ford Museum, Grand Rapids, MI.
[edit] Bibliography
- Myth America: Picturing Women, 1865-1945 (New York: Pantheon Books, 1975).
