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In light of winter storm Jonas, Gov. Andrew Cuomo issued a travel ban as snow and thick fog consumed North Shore communities with around two feet of snow on Saturday and Sunday. Plows and police officers passed through the hamlets to aid in road cleanup and enforce the Governor’s travel ban on Saturday. The Governor lifted the ban early Sunday morning after the winter weather cleared in New York.
Clockwise from top right two men trudge toward Port Jefferson Station, going uphill on Route 25A; snow decorates leaves; a man walks his dog through the fog and flurries; Port Jefferson Harbor and a ferry are turned white with snow from a blizzard that pounded Long Island over the weekend; and snow starts to cover Main Street in lower Port as a code enforcement vehicle keeps watch over the area.
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Marine veteran tackles a new kind of fight By Alex Petroski
Some people watch mixed martial arts fights on television and think “that’s brutal,” or “that’s barbaric,” or “that’s too violent.” Some don’t know what it is at all. But North Shore native Devin Mollberg described the anything-goes, hand-to-hand combat style differently. “It’s really exhilarating…It’s just an adrenaline rush,” said Mollberg, a 28-yearold Ward Melville High School graduate and a veteran of the United States Marine Corps, about his favorite pastime. Mollberg grew up in Stony Brook, where he returned home from Afghanistan following his second tour of duty in late 2014. His first tour deployed him to Japan and South Korea. During his enlistment, he was stationed in Twentynine Palms, California “It’s kind of a tough transition,” Mollberg said in an interview last week about adjusting back to home life after four years in the military. “It’s kind of like, you leave home and then when you come back four years later everything’s a lot different. So it’s kind of tough getting back into the routine of things.” Mollberg, like countless other veterans, said he realized the importance of finding ways to regain a feeling of normalcy upon returning home. Mixed martial arts has provided him with that. “I started doing Brazilian jiu-jitsu when I was a teenager,” Mollberg said. “I’d always trained jiu-jitsu and boxing even throughout my entire enlistment. I would train at schools in California.” Mollberg has been involved in two jiu-jitsu tournaments in his life, one in Okinawa, Japan, and one in 2015 in St. James. He said he decided to use his boxing, jiu-jitsu and military training
blend to pursue a mixed martial arts career. Generally speaking, the most successful MMA fighters tend to use a seamless blend of multiple disciplines to create their own style. He gave MMA a full endorsement as a way for veterans to channel some of their emotions upon returning home. “It’s definitely a great thing for veterans to get into,” Mollberg said. “It helps you stay calm.” “Devin’s a goal-setter and a go-getter,” Nick Galatro, a friend of Mollberg’s for about a decade, said in an interview. “When he puts his mind to
something he won’t stop until he gets it and he’s probably the most humble guy I know. You will never hear how great he is from his mouth,” Galatro said. “It’s just an important skill set that I think is something that you should have,” Mollberg said about what initially drew him to fighting. “It’s definitely a passion of mine. I love fighting.” Some of his other passionate interests include rooting for the New York Jets and Knicks. He follows the Jets with the same intensity as a cage fighter. Though he hasn’t yet been in an MMA “cage fight,” his training and prepara-
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Student employment spikes at Stony Brook University By Phil Corso
Stony Brook University is putting its students to work both inside and outside the classroom. The university announced this week that it was turning up the heat at its oncampus dining services, where student payroll wages went up 32 percent thanks to an employment increase of 22 percent over the past year. The school has made on-campus hiring a greater priority over the past year, a spokeswoman said, because of research studies stating that it not only helped them raise money, but become better students as well. Research from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics confirmed that part-time campus jobs not only raise cash, but also can help raise students’ grade-point averages. Campus dining services student employees collectively earned $663,912 — earning a competitive average wage of $9.40 per hour — and maintained an average 3.27 GPA during the fall 2015 semester, Stony Brook University said in a statement. “We applaud campus dining for taking this approach as these student employees will develop transferable skills that can apply in a variety of work environments and position students for career-relevant internships and full time jobs,” said Marianna Savoca, director of the career center at Stony Brook. “The
career center works with hundreds of employers from every industry sector — they want candidates with workplace skills and experience — and that’s what our student employment program aspires to create.” More than 220 students were on campus last week for on-site training for various positions they will occupy over the coming year — and they’re still hiring, the university said. The university’s campus dining services employed more than 450 students in the fall of 2015, a spokeswoman for the university said. Over the past year, Stony Brook students worked an average of 22 hours each week across various positions that go beyond just the kitchens and dining spots, the spokeswoman said. “They work in marketing, social media, event planning and Web, and often interact directly with managers, chefs, university personnel and the public,” the spokeswoman said in a statement. “Working for campus dining has allowed me to improve my communication skills with customers, staff, and teammates, all while giving me the freedom to use my creativity and experience to work towards a common goal,” said David Golden, a CDS marketing intern and business marketing major who plans to graduate in May 2017. Campus dining services student em-
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Criminal helps police A drunk driver helped police nab him on Jan. 21 when he mistakenly thought he was being pulled over. According to police, as officers were pulling over another vehicle for a traffic stop at the corner of Route 25A and Chestnut Street in Mount Sinai, the 48-year-old DWI suspect, who is from Ovideo, Fla., also pulled over. Police discovered the man was intoxicated and arrested him at the scene, charging him with driving while ability impaired.
Missing moola According to police, residents on Old Homestead Road in Port Jefferson reported that money was missing from their home. Police didn’t know how much money was missing but said the incident happened on Jan. 21 at 10 a.m.
Doing lines to jail On Jan. 22 at 7:05 a.m., police arrested a man from Centereach on two counts of criminal possession of a controlled substance. According to police, the 32-year-old man was in possession of cocaine.
Lifting weights, lifting wallets Someone left their wallet in an unlocked locker at the LA Fitness on Middle Country Road in Centereach. When the victim returned to the locker room for his wallet, it was gone. The incident occurred on Jan. 25 at 5:30 p.m. Sometime on Jan. 21, someone stole a wallet from a student’s backpack in a classroom at Newfield High School. On Jan. 25 between 4 and 6 p.m., someone stole a wallet from a student’s bag at Joseph A. Edgar Intermediate School in Rocky Point.
Bounced behind bars A 36-year-old woman from Selden was arrested for grand larceny on Jan. 19 after using another person’s checkbook to write several checks to herself between Sept. 2 and Dec. 10. Police said the incident happened at a bank on Nesconset Highway in Port Jefferson Station. Steal fresh Between Jan. 20 at 10 p.m. and 8 a.m. the following day, an unidentified person broke into a Subway near Route 112 in Port Jefferson Station and stole the cash register. Going to the gifts Police arrested a 50-year-old woman from Bay Shore on Jan. 20 for petit larceny. Police said the woman was in a home improvement store on Middle Country Road in Selden when she took several faucets and
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THROWBACK THURSDAY
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at right, the house at 401 Beach Street was the site of a brutal double murder. above, a view of the home in the distance, overlooking a frozen Port Jefferson Harbor.
Harborside murder-suicide rocks village By Elana Glowatz
“Silent but smiling, Henry hit William again and again, leaving the young man lying senseless on the carpeted floor.” It’s a story that unfolds like a dark novel. A member of a prominent family in a quiet, seaside village snaps one day and beats his relatives to death at the home they shared, splattering blood everywhere, before hanging himself in the backyard barn. A child who narrowly escapes the massacre grows up to be a successful businessman but will remain forever haunted by his memories. The 1857 murder-suicide on Beach Street shocked the Port Jefferson community and would likely still shock residents today. It could have all started with the reportedly turbulent relationship between Henry Walters and his wife of three years, Elizabeth Darling-Walters. Or perhaps it was the feud between Walters and his wife’s son-in-law William Sturtevant that was boiling into legal action despite the two living under the same roof. According to a narrative written by former Port Jefferson historian Ken Brady and published in the Port Times Record 10 years ago, the gossip around the village was that Walters, 57, and Darling-Walters, 46, fought frequently, with things so bad that they did not share a bed. The husband, a carpenter and a farmer, felt ignored and was “worried that his wife would leave her substantial
estate to Martha Jane and Emmet,” her Walters was eating breakfast with the children from her first marriage to the young Sturtevant couple when Walters, late Matthew Darling, one of the founders finished feeding the horses, grabbed of the nearby Darling Shipyard on the an iron bar and rushed into the dining west side of the harbor. room. According to Brady, the son-in-law The Darling family was originally from was bludgeoned to death first with blows Smithtown but built their Port Jefferson to the head, “splattering brain matter on shipyard in 1832 and quickly became pro- the walls and furniture.” Then Walters lific, building 13 ships during that decade went after his wife and 20-year-old stepalone. daughter, who both fled outside. If the chatter is true, Walters showed “Elizabeth tried to shield herself warning signs of a violent outburst. from the savage blows, but soon fell to Brady wrote, “In a the ground mortally creepy attempt to win ‘Her barn was haunted wounded, her skull back his wife’s affecfractured and dress tions, Henry bought a by the ghost of Henry soaked with blood.” shroud from local coffin Walters, whose terrifying Martha Jane Sturtemaker Ambrose King. screams supposedly vant was spared when Walters often wore the Matthew Darling’s white burial sheet about echoed over the harbor.’ younger brother, Beach the homestead, threatStreet resident John ening to commit suicide if Elizabeth did E. Darling, heard his seriously injured not return his love.” niece’s screams. Brady said when Walters At the same time, the farmer’s feud caught sight of the man, he went back inwith Sturtevant and his father, fellow side and looked for 11-year-old Emmet ship carpenter Amasa Sturtevant, who Brewster Darling. But the boy was hidalso lived on Beach Street, had reached ing under a bed in the attic and, while his a climax the day before the son-in-law’s stepfather was in another room, ran down murder — according to Brady, Walters the stairs and escaped Walters’ pursuit. received a letter from William Sturtevant’s That’s when Walters went into the attorney, Thomas Strong, warning him barn, put a white handkerchief over his to “retract statements he had made about face and hanged himself. According to young Sturtevant” by Nov. 21, the day of Brady, the murderer had neatly folded his the bloodshed, “or to expect a slander coat and vest and placed them on a bench. suit.” Despite his traumatic experience, EmThat Saturday morning in the white, met Darling, who also went by E.B. Darling one-and-a-half-story home, Darling- and whose first name has sometimes
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Road and Old Homestead Road in Belle Terre. Admission to the fundraiser is $40. There will be hors d’oeuvres, a cash bar and raffles. For more information about the fundraising event and for tickets, call 631-476-1969.
been misspelled as “Emmett,” grew into a productive adult. According to former Cedar Hill Cemetery historian George Moraitis, Darling took over his family’s shipyard and married twice before his death almost 30 years after the murders. His elder sister moved on to a degree — in his written history “Forevermore on Cedar Hill,” Moraitis noted that Martha Jane later remarried, to Capt. Oliver Davis. But Brady said the woman lived in the same house where her mother and first husband were murdered until her own death in 1906, “despite claims from some villagers that her barn was haunted by the ghost of Henry Walters, whose terrifying screams supposedly echoed over the harbor.” No one else will live in the murder house, however — both the home and the shipyard property have been torn down and rebuilt. The Port Jefferson Village historical photo archive notes that the Port Jefferson Fire Department burned down the home during a drill 60 years ago, on Jan. 22, 1956, and a Suffolk County sewer facility took its place. The Darling shipyard, on the other hand, eventually became a power plant. Darling-Walters is buried at Cedar Hill with her first husband and daughter, and William Sturtevant at his own family’s grave site there. Emmet Darling rests at Oak Hill Cemetery in Stony Brook with his second wife, Julia A. Oakes. According to Moraitis, the killer’s burial place is unknown.
High school reunion will be groovy Comsewogue High School’s Class of 1975 is holding its 40th reunion celebration on Saturday, Feb. 6. At The Meadow Club in Port Jefferson Station, starting at 7 p.m., all ’70s classmates, families, friends and teachers are invited. For more information about the event and to purchase tickets, visit www. comsewogue75.myevent.com. The website contains a list of graduates who are attending the reunion. The Meadow Club is located on Route 112, south of Nesconset Highway.
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Prekindergarten and kindergarten students learned the importance of sharing and giving back to their community through a Sharing Snowman project. Students were asked to decorate
Suffolk cheer team comes in third Suffolk County Community College's Cheer Team placed third in the nation at the UCA & UDA College Cheerleading and Dance Team National Championships. The competition, the most prestigious college cheerleading championship in the country, was held at the Walt Disney World Resort's ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex from Jan. 15 to 17. Suffolk was one of only two junior colleges competing among a total of 11 colleges and universities in the Open AllGirl Division. “Our goal was to make it
Students build sharinging snowman a blank snowflake in return for a dollar donation by the Unity Drive Pre-K/Kindergarten Center in the Middle Country Central School District. The donations were used to purchase holiday
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Behind Centereach junior Cassidy Treanor’s 13 points, the Cougars held off a third-quarter charge by Newfield to defeat their crosstown rival 37-24 on their own court Tuesday. Centereach broke out to an early lead, 12-5, as Treanor led her team in the opening quarter by scoring a pair of field goals and a three-pointer at the buzzer. The Cougars controlled the tempo of the game early as senior Katrina Gangji dominated the boards with 11 rebounds on the evening. The Wolverines fought back and managed to close within six points, mainly due to senior Maria Daume’s two field goals and sophomore Emily Diaz’s three-pointer with 4:55 left in the second period, but the team still couldn’t come any closer than that until the third quarter. Diaz said her team tries to forget what has happened in the past and only focus on fix-
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Santiago said. “We were dead tired going man-to-man the whole time to try to get back in the game.” Newfield clawed back from another deficit to trail 29-22 to open the final quarter, but didn’t come any closer the rest of the way. “Our team tends to play to the other team’s speed, and when that happens, the coach always tells us to slow down,” Treanor said. “Coach told us at the half that we play our best when we play our game, and that’s when you get the win.” Centereach made an adjustment in the final eight minutes of play, and was able to hold Newfield to just two pints as a result, while Gangji, Treanor and senior Erica Medina combined for eight points to put the game away.
“Defensively, we played very, very well in the first half,” Santiago said. “If we could have made a couple of easy layups and a few free throws, the score would’ve been a little closer.” Centereach head coach James Steigele said the crosstown rivalry is important. “It’s always an important game, because both teams come out to play and they play hard,” the coach said. “It’s always a nail-biter.” With the win, Centereach improves to 6-4 in League III, while Newfield falls to 2-8. With four games remaining in regularseason play, the Cougars are back in action Friday night when they hit the road to take on Huntington at 6:15 p.m. The Wolverines host West Islip on Thursday, Jan. 28, with a 5:45 p.m. tipoff scheduled.
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Art Deco A vertically oriented design includes flat roofs and metal window casements. Neoclassical Neoclassical homes exist in incarnations from onestory cottages to multilevel manses. Bungalow A forerunner of the craftsman style, you'll find rustic exteriors and sheltered-feeling interiors. Prairie Originated by Frank Lloyd Wright, this style can be house boxy or lowslung. Cape Cod A true classic, Cape Cod homes have gabled roofs and unornamented fronts. Pueblo Flat roofs, straightedge window frames, and earth-colored walls typify Pueblos. Colonial An offshoot of the Cape Cod style, it features a rectangular design and secondfloor bedrooms.
Queen Anne Emerging in the Victorian era, the style features inventive floor plans and decorative chimneys. Contemporary Unmistakably modern, this style has odd-sized windows and little ornamentation. Ranch Ranch homes are set apart by pitched-roof construction, built-in garages, and picture windows. Craftsman Full- or partial-width porches are framed by tapered columns and overhanging eaves. Regency The style borrows the Georgian's classic lines, yet eschews ornamentation. Creole A front wall recedes to form a first-story porch and a second-story balcony. Saltbox Its sharply sloping gable roof resembles old-time boxes used for storing salt. Dutch Colonial German settlers originated this style, which features a broad, barn-like roof. Second Empire This Victorian style features mansard roofs with dormer windows. Federal This style arose amid a renewed interest in Greek and
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Not all people must be governed in an attempt to promote transparency, the New York State Joint Commission on Public ethics recently proposed requiring public relations consultants to register as lobbyists if they are trying to influence editorial writers. That would mean any public relations professionals who contacts a reporter or editorial board in an attempt to get the media to advance their client’s message would be considered to be delivering a lobbying message. Several New York public relations firms and New York Press Association members immediately spoke out against this proposal, and we side with them and share their concerns. To force anyone to report to the government before they speak to a reporter seems dangerous, and almost medieval. it treads on freedom of speech if the government is effectively regulating newspaper content, and interfering with a newsroom staff’s ability to independently and objectively judge its sources on its own. on top of that, it is an example of government butting its nose into what are largely privately owned companies — a place it has no business giving orders. on the surface, it seems as though JCoPe is paying the press a compliment, saying the news media are so valuable that it wants to help preserve the public watchdog’s objectivity. But, in an ironic twist, within the same stroke it would be compromising the independence of the Fourth estate by controlling its sources. Freedom of the press is one of the rights America was built upon and relies upon to this day, and this move would tramp on the media’s liberty to print the issues and concerns of the public without needing permission from the government. one of the main jobs of a reporter is to evaluate whether a source is credible and whether a story is newsworthy. Let’s keep this task out of the hands of the government and in the hands of the people who make these decisions every day. As a newspaper that takes pride in serving the community before anyone else, we stand against this proposal to restrict our communication and we hope you will too.
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Keep Melville To The ediTor: The following letter was written in response to “Three Village BOE responds to comptroller audit,” an article that ran in the Jan. 21 edition of The Village Times Herald. in response to Jeff Kerman’s “issue” with the name of Ward Melville high school, where do i start? i’ll make two uneducated assumption as Mr. Kerman has done: First, he did not live in the Three Villages in the 1930s and, second, he is Jewish. Based on those two assumptions, i can fully understand his issue. As a member of our school board i would expect him to make some effort to learn the facts and not rely totally on Lee Koppelman’s
comment in a recent Newsday story. i agree that, “it is not acceptable in today’s age,” however, we are talking about the 1930s and ’40s when i couldn’t get a job with the New York Telephone Company because of my italian heritage after serving in the U.S. Navy during World War ii as an aviation electrician — skills and qualifications didn’t count. That being said, i can attest to the fact that Mr. Melville was not an anti-Semite — the first tenant in the new village center was a Jewish optician — and he helped the synagogue in Setauket. he gave mortgages to residents, including African-Americans and then forgave the mortgages in his will. There is so much to learn about the Melvilles. My wife and i were
blessed to have Mrs. Melville as a friend and mentor for more than 10 years. She never uttered one word to indicate anti-Semitism or racism during our many conversations. Mr. and Mrs. Melville created our beautiful community; Mr. Melville created the Three Village school district and built the buildings at his expense as he did with the original shopping center. Change the name? No. i would suggest a course in local history for the school board and students and then change the lettering on the building top to gold. Mr. Kerman, call my wife to get your facts straight before the district does anything stupid. richard rocchio Stony Brook
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Alan Alda turns 80, dedicates second act to science have been the master of ceremonies for the Kavli Prizes, which are given out in Oslo, Norway, every two years to researchers in astrophysics, nanotechnology and neuroscience. The prestigious Kavli awards are modeled after the Nobel Prize. Kandel, 86, knows a thing or two about those awards as well: he shared the Nobel Prize in D. None 2000 in Physiology or Medicine. of the above Alda has helped teach Kandel by DaNiel DuNaief about the communication of scidesk@tbrnewspapers.com ence. Alda’s “range is quite broad and his ability to communicate is quite remarkable,” Kandel said. teven Strogatz picked Kandel attended an 80th birthup the phone to hear the day bash for Alda a few weeks ago. familiar voice of someone He took a turn talking to those he’d never met. celebrating an extraordinary life. “I got a call from out of the “What had been emphasized by blue, which was really shocking,” the family was his acting career,” said Strogatz, a math professor at Cornell University. “He said, ‘this Kandel said. He described two is Alan Alda. I don’t know if you important features about Alda. First, “He’s revolutionized the know me, but I’m an actor.’” communication of science to the Alda had read an article Stropublic. He’s made an enormous gatz wrote for Scientific Ameriimpact. He does not have a peer.” can about synchronization in the And second, “He’s the most unnatural world, which included pretentious guy you’ve ever met. phenomena like thousands of You’d never have thought he’d male fireflies flashing in unison done a movie.” like a Christmas tree. Alda said In 2006, the unpretentious he wanted to discuss the article. Alda approached Shirley Kinney, The Manhattan-born actor visited Strogatz, who was then at the former president of Stony Brook University, about starting MIT in Massachusetts. a center that would help scientists “He was this super-famous share their goals, approaches, and TV and movie actor,” Strogatz results with the public. said. “He was not particularly Alda met with several people well-known for work in science in East Hampton, including communication, like he is now.” Howard Schneider, the dean of At the time of his call to Stony Brook’s journalism school. Strogatz, which was more than “The creation story” that 20 years ago, Alda was only one explains the origins of the Center year into hosting the PBS series Scientific American Frontiers, in for Communicating Science, which he wound up interviewing “starts with this porch meeting,” hundreds of scientists during the Schneider said. When the group returned 11 years he hosted the program. Alda, who is turning 80 on the from East Hampton, they discovered that there were occaThursday this newspaper comes out, has developed a second career sional programs and courses and workshops about communicating as a science communicator, winscience, but there didn’t appear to ning a star-studded list of new be any center devoted exclusively fans who appreciate his passion, to “improving the ability of scienintellect and, most of all, thirst tists to communicate with the for knowledge that has turned public,” Schneider said. this six-time Emmy winning Aided by former U.S. Rep. actor into a champion of scientific Tim Bishop and current U.S. knowledge and scientists. Rep. Steve Israel (D-Huntington), Alda is “phenomenal,” said Stony Brook applied for, and Eric Kandel, the director of the received, a federal grant of Kavli Institute for Brain Sci$220,000 to start the effort. ence at Columbia University. Alda “was the inspiration and Kandel explained that Alda and a talented Norwegian journalist remains the inspirational figure
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in this effort,” Schneider said. The seed money led to the founding in 2009 of the Center for Communicating Science, offering students an opportunity to learn how to connect with a range of audiences through various types of training, including improvisational acting, which is the only training Alda received. Improv requires people to listen to what other people are saying and build off of that, forging connections through shared common ground, Schneider said. “One rule of improv is that you say, ‘Yes and,’” said Elizabeth Bass, a founding director at the center. “You have to take what [the other person] gives you and add to it.” Valeri Lantz-Gefroh, the improvisation director at the center, came from the world of theater to the center. She said Alda helped her learn more about a “skill I’ve been working on for 30 years by teaching it in a different way. That gift has come from Alda.” Indeed, scientists who have taken these courses suggested that they have been invaluable in helping them deliver their message and connect with their audience. Colin West, a research assistant at the C.N. Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics at Stony Brook, took six courses at the center. Before he attended the classes, he said he was introverted. “It’s not enough to eschew the jargon from my own vocabulary,” West said. “I should be trying to understand the jargon and phraseology that’s typical in their patterns of thought and incorporate them into my language.” Alda has also helped a wide range of scientists. He has “made many of us look from the outside at what we do and ask how we can do better in telling our stories and be more engaging about our fields,” said Louise Leakey, a research professor in the department of anthropology at Stony Brook who works on human evolution in Africa. Alda asked Leakey to sit on the advisory board at the center because she was working to make the fossil collection accessible online and set up a citizen science project in paleontology. The notion of sharing science with non-scientists has only recently become more acceptable and more popular, in part
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because scientists are struggling to get funding for projects ranging from basic science exploring physical properties at an incredibly small scale to discoveries that might help treat diseases like cancer, Alzheimer’s disease or schizophrenia, researchers said. Alda has continued to be a driving force at the center, which, in 2013, was renamed the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science. In what friends suggest was typical self-deprecating fashion, Alda said he was flattered that the school was named after him and suggested that, to that point, only a horse had shared his name. Committed to the center and passionate about science, Alda continues to keep a schedule that would exhaust someone half his age. Years ago, he shot his final episode of The Blacklist, in which his character, Alan Fitch, dies. That night, Alda flew to Chicago to give a talk as the keynote speaker of the American Association of Medical Colleges to an audience of more than 1,200. Alda didn’t get his wake up call and got up 20 minutes before his 8 a.m. speech, when he inspired leaders about the need to share science with the public. That night, Alda flew back to New York, where he opened on Broadway in a matinee of “Love Letters.” Bass said Alda’s work ethic has inspired others at the center. “We want to help” these efforts become “an important part of his legacy,” Bass said. It’s a legacy that continues because of a lifesaving surgery Alda had when he was meeting with a LEISURE EDITOR Heidi Sutton SPORTS EDITOR Desirée Keegan ONLINE EDITOR Elana Glowatz ADVERTISING DIRECTOR Kathryn Mandracchia
scientist in Chile in 2003. When a local surgeon made a diagnosis and told him the procedure, Alda said he’d need an end-to-end anastomosis. The surprised surgeon asked him how he knew that, and Alda said he used to pretend to perform that in the show “M*A*S*H.” Friends, colleagues, and scientists appreciate the active intellectual life Alda and Arlene Alda, who have been married close to 59 years, share. Arlene Alda, a photographer and children’s book author, and her husband have numerous books in their house, Strogatz said. They use these books to continue to feed their curiosity. Alda has also asked Strogatz to give him geometry problems to solve. “He works on them with great effort for weeks or months at a time,” Strogatz said. For Alda, the final product, however, is less important than the process. And that process continues as Alda heads into another decade. These days, the people who imagine his distinctive voice aren’t picturing Hawkeye Pierce in a red robe running to a helicopter so much as they are looking for inspiration in their efforts to share the wonder and beauty of science. “Sometimes when I have to explain a complicated topic to a nonscientist, I imagine Alan sitting next to me and asking me questions like I’m a guest on Scientific American Frontiers,” West said. “Trying to envision what questions he would ask often helps me figure out what answers to give.”
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