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18 September 30 - October 6, 2010
Obituaries Ray McCarville, A Member of the Greatest Generation and a Monrovia Old Cat has Died BY SUSAN MOTANDER Raymond V. McCarville, 85, died on September 21, 2010. This man was a quiet power who loved one woman, Phyllis, his whole life and loved many things in that life. He loved his children, Marsha and Michael, he loved his alma mater, Monrovia High School, he loved his unit in the military, the 1st Cavalry, and he greatly loved his church, Immaculate Conception. Many of the things he became involved with he did together with his wife Phyllis who preceded him in death in 2004. Phyllis had been the City Clerk of Monrovia and a member of the City Council. Together with Ray, they were instrumental in implementing “Make a Difference Day” here each year. As a result of this and many other activities Ray was named Senior Volunteer of the Year several years ago. While his health has curtailed some of his activities in recent years, he could still be found each Tuesday morning at the Monrovian where he joined the other “Old Cats”, Monrovia High graduates from the war years. The last time I saw Ray he was with other members of the Southern California 1st Cavalry Association of which he had been the president for many years. They were at Arcadia County Park to help celebrate local service personnel and veterans. Ray was proud of his service in the !st Cav. during W.W.II
He saw action in the South Pacific where he occasionally met up with his older brother, Robert who was a pilot with the Black Panther Squadron, 1st Marine Auxiliary Wing. According to the stories he told his buddies, his brother on was able to drop more than the usual supplies to his little brother. Sgt. Ray was, therefore, popular with his comrades as his big brother Robert was able to supply him with a bottle or two, now
and then. Another of the stories told about Ray during those years was that while he was trained as a Browning Automatic Rifleman, he wasn’t the best shot in the unit. That distinction belonged to a young man from the hills of Kentucky. As Ray told the story, he was the spotter for this young man. In essence Ray was a bird dog for that sharp shooter. More than anything else, Ray was a man of faith. Many people talk about their faith, Ray acted upon his. Father Francis Cassidy who celebrated the funeral mass for Ray on Monday, told a short story about him. Several year ago Father Cassidy
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was diagnosed with prostate cancer. As he told the story, the doorbell rang in the rectory. It was Ray announcing that he was taking the priest to City of Hope. Despite having no appointment, Father Cassidy said that within a hour or so he was talking to the doctor who later performed his surgery. He said that Ray was a man of actions. Another of those actions was befriending and assisting the order of nuns assigned to Immaculate Conception. Currently that order is the Sister Disciples of the Divine Master, and when they moved, it was Ray and his daughter Marsha who rented trucks and helped the sisters with their move. He was active in the Monrovia Alumni Association and served as member of the Alvord Ashby/ Lancaster alumni College Scholarship Committee which awarded scholarships to Monrovia and Duarte High School students. He was also a member of the Monrovia Rotary Club, the Gad-A-Bouts and the Monrovia Old Cats. He will be greatly missed by his daughter, Marsha McCarville; son and daughter in law, Michael & Mara McCarville; sister, Mary Ruth McCarville, and his grandchildren, Justin, Shane & Katie. Following the funeral mass on Monday, Ray was laid to rest with full military honors at Live Oak Memorial Park beside his beloved wife Phyllis.
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Angela (Betty) Cary Reed 1923-2010 Angela (Betty) Cary Reed died peacefully in her sleep in the early morning hours of Tuesday, September 21. She was at home, as she wanted, in Sierra Madre. Born and raised in California, she started at U.C.L.A. at the age of 16 and graduated at 19. Betty and her husband Jim moved the family to Sierra Madre in 1959. Their 3 children went to Ascension Parish Day School, P.H.S., and LaSalle. After her children left home she had a successful local realty career for thirty years
and donated her time to several charities. Betty loved reading, playing tennis, and bridge. She joined the Friends of the Library and was active for many years. She started playing tennis in the 1930’s and continued until injuries from a car accident caused her to quit in 1997. Her husband of 51 years, Jim, died during her 6 month recovery. An avid and expert bridge player, she played until 2004 when she felt she could no longer play to the level she wanted for her self and her partners.
Betty then lived quietly at home reading the paper in the morning, watching the evening news at dinner, and enjoying the seasons pass by until she died at the age of 87. She was cared for by her son, Jay, in her last decade. Her three children, Steve Luder, Lisa Reed, and Jay Reed, loved her very much and miss her. There will be no services and the date of the disposition of her ashes is unknown at this time. If any remembrances are desired please donate to the Friends of the Library.
Jerrold E. Marsden, 68 Cal Tech Professor of Engineering Jerrold Eldon Marsden, the Carl F. Braun Professor of Engineering, Control and Dynamical Systems, and Applied and Computational Mathematics at Caltech, passed away on the evening of September 21, 2010, with his wife and daughter by his side. He was 68. Marsden was one of the leading world experts in mathematical and theoretical mechanics. His work spanned a variety of fields, including fluid mechanics, geometric mechanics, elasticity, control theory, dynamical systems, and numerical methods. By focusing on geometric foundations, he was able to unite different disciplines, connecting mathematical theory with physical models and practical applications. His work has, consequently, influenced geometers and physicists alike. His research has led to advances in many areas, including spacecraft mission design, turbulence modeling, and the design of underwater vehicles. Marsden’s influence was felt around the globe, in no small part because of his countless international collaborations. “Jerry was an amazing intellectual, a gifted professor, and one of the finest colleagues that I have met,” says Ares Rosakis, the Theodore von Kármán Professor of Aeronautics
and professor of mechanical engineering, and chair of the Division of Engineering and Applied Science. “He was a great mentor to many of our Caltech students and our younger colleagues.” Born in Ocean Falls, British Columbia, Canada, Marsden graduated from the University of Toronto in 1965 with a BSc in mathematics. He received his PhD in applied mathematics in 1968 from Princeton University. He then joined the faculty at the University of California, Berkeley, before coming to Caltech in 1992 as a Fairchild Distinguished Scholar. He was appointed professor of control and dynamical systems in 1995, and in 2003, he was named the Carl F. Braun Professor. In 1992, he helped found the Fields Institute, a mathematical research institute at the University of Toronto, where he was a director until 1994. Marsden was an accomplished educator and mentor, having written six undergraduate math textbooks, which are used worldwide, and 14 monographs, many of which are the definitive references in their fields. He has had more than 40 PhD students and postdocs. In 2006, Caltech’s Graduate Student Council awarded him its Teaching and Mentoring Award.
He received numerous other awards that recognized his contributions as a researcher and educator: the Jeffrey-Williams Prize, the AMS-SIAM Norbert Wiener Prize, two Humboldt Prizes, a Fairchild Fellowship, the Max Planck Research Award, the SIAM von Neumann Prize, and the United Technologies Research Award. In 2006, he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Surrey. He will posthumously be awarded the 2010 Thomas K. Caughey Award this coming November in Vancouver. He was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society in 2006 and was a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is survived by his wife, Barbara; his children, Christopher and Alison; grandchildren Eliza and Isaac; and sister Judy. The family has requested that, in lieu of flowers, contributions be made to the Jerrold E. Marsden Scholarship Fund, which is an endowment that will be used to support students in Caltech’s Department of Computing and Mathematical Sciences. Alternatively, contributions can be made to the Pasadena dog rescue, Mutts and Moms.