October 31, 2004

• Dead On:
  A Triple Play
  

   
  

  From today’s New York Times, in reverse order: Vaughn Meader, Star as Kennedy Mimicker, Dies at 68 Vaughn Meader was a comic who attained instant celebrity in 1962 with his record “The First Family,” a dead-on spoof of President John F. Kennedy and his entourage. James Rousmaniere, 86, Skilled Yachtsman, Dies James A. Rousmaniere was a socially prominent yachtsman and professional fund-raiser. Sister Nancy Salisbury, 74, Headmistress, Dies Sister Nancy Salisbury was the longtime headmistress of New York’s oldest independent school for girls, the Convent of the Sacred Heart..

  For more background, see the Log24.net entry of 3 AM Friday, the date of Meader’s death. See also a Boston Globe obituary that quotes John F. Kennedy: “Vaughn Meader was busy tonight, so I came myself.”

  Note that Rousmaniere was John F. Kennedy’s roommate at Harvard.

  Note, too, that Kennedy’s daughter Caroline attended Sister Salisbury’s school.

  A memorial Mass for Sister Salisbury will be held on Monday, November 22, 2004, at the Church of St. Ignatius Loyola, 980 Park Avenue, at 5:30 pm.  

  What does all this Camelot portend?   I do not know, but the following quote seems appropriate.

  “Flores, flores para los muertos.”

  – Tennessee Williams, 1947

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