Centennial High School yearbook, 1962

Richard Hawley Grant (November 27, 1935 – March 27, 2013)

Grant passed away on March 27, 2013, in Roatan, Honduras, while
cruising the Western Caribbean. He was born in Portland, Oregon
and graduated from Beaverton High School in 1953 and attended 
the University of Oregon, graduating in 1957. Richard went on to
become a health/PE teacher and coach at The Dalles High School
from 1957 to 1960 and Centennial High School in Gresham from
1960 to 1966.  

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to OPB, All Classical 89.9
or a local Food Bank. A Celebration of Dick’s life will be held at the
Willamette Heritage Center at the Mill in Salem on April 28 1-3 p.m.

NEW YORK (AP) – A tiny hymnal from 1640 believed to be the first book ever
printed in what is now the United States is going up for auction, and it could sell for
as much as $30 million.

Only 11 copies of the Bay Psalm Book survive in varying degrees of completeness. Members of Boston’s Old South Church have authorized the sale of one of its two
copies at Sotheby’s Nov. 26.

"It’s a spectacular book, arguably one of the most important books in this nation’s 
history," said the Rev. Nancy Taylor, senior minister and CEO of the church, which 
was established in 1669. Samuel Adams was a member and Benjamin Franklin was baptized there.

At one time, the church owned five copies of the 6-by-5-inch hymnal. One is now at
the Library of Congress, another at Yale University and a third at Brown University.

Taylor says the church voted to sell one of its two remaining copies—both of which
are in "excellent condition" — to increase its grants, ministries and "strengthen our
voice in general as a progressive Christian church."

The book was published in Cambridge, Mass., by the Puritan leaders of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. It came just 20 years after the Pilgrims landed at
Plymouth.

Jonathan Harshman Winters III (November 11, 1925 – April 11, 2013)

The Comedian died Thursday evening of natural causes in Montecito,
California.

                Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher 

                           (October 13, 1925 – April 8, 2013)

(Fox News) – Former British Prime Minister Margaret has died  after
suffering a stroke. She had been ill for some time.

"It is with great sadness that Mark and Carol Thatcher announced that
their mother died peacefully this morning,” Thatcher spokesperson Lord
Bell said in a statement.

Thatcher led Britain’s Conservatives to three election victories from 1979
to 1990, the longest continuous period in office by a British prime minister
since the early 19th century. Alongside former U.S. President Ronald
Reagan, Thatcher battled against communism and saw the Berlin Wall get
torn down in 1989.

British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and U.S. President Ronald Reagan

Chicago (Fox news) – Demolition reportedly began Tuesday on the Chicago
apartment building where President Ronald Reagan lived briefly as a child.

Chicago’s DNAInfo.com website said crews from Heneghan Wrecking Co.
began tearing down the Hyde Park building at 832 E. 57th St., where the
40th U.S. president lived from ages 2 to 3 with his parents on the first floor 
in 1914 and 1915. 

The University of Chicago purchased the building in 2004 as part of an effort
to buy all residential property immediately north of the hospital. It plans to
install a plaque at the site to commemorate Washington’s connection.

Preservationists had tried to save the building, the website reports, but those
efforts were unsuccessful. The university said it had no immediate plans to
build on the property.

“In the short term, the site will be part of a construction staging area, to be
used for the new Center for Care and Discovery Hospital and for construction
of a new parking garage for the medical center,” university officials said in a
statement.

Despite persistent rumors, university officials have repeatedly said the site
will not be used for a Barack Obama presidential library.

Ronald Reagan, (with “Dutch” haircut) Neil Reagan, and
parents Jack and Nelle Reagan. Family Christmas card
around 1916-17.

President Ronald Reagan