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An Open Letter
Dear Friends of
Liberia,
In Memory of Coreen Ann (Liebzeit)
Ali
12
September 1948 – 5 September 2005
Liberia Group XVII, Maternal-Child Health Care volunteers
(1969-1971), lost a very dear friend in early September. Coreen (Liebzeit)
Ali died suddenly a couple of weeks after attending our wonderful 36th
Peace Corps group reunion on the Oregon coast. While in the Peace
Corps, Coreen established a pre-natal/well-baby clinic at the
hospital in Greenville, Sinoe County. After the Peace Corps, Coreen
met and married Fazle Ali, an engineer from Bangladesh. They first
lived in New York but eventually moved to Wisconsin, Coreen’s home
state. They raised two children: a son, Shauncey, and a daughter,
Afton, both now in their early twenties. In recent years Coreen
worked in the library of a local elementary school.
Because of Coreen’s love
of life, children, and Liberia, Group XVII thought that in lieu of
flowers we would make a donation to the Hands Across the Water
project (developed by Group XVII member, Sharon Mosher Tangney). We
appreciate Sharon’s efforts, supporting the Friends of Liberia
project, Liberian Educators for Action and Peace (LEAP). We think
that Coreen would joyfully approve of this donation to help with the
education of the children of Liberia.
As Liberia goes to the
polls and we look forward to peace in Liberia, we hope that this
donation will assist Friends of Liberia and LEAP in their goal to
help with the rebuilding of the country we fell in love with 30
years ago.
Please send an
appropriate “Thank you / Notification of Donation” letter to
Coreen’s family: Mr. Fazle Ali and Family. Please also send a copy
to our Group XVII contact: Sharon Tangney; we will take care of
sending copies to the individual donors.
Keep up the good work,
Group XVII, Health Volunteers, ’69 – ‘71
Contact: Sharon (Mosher) Tangney
Peace Corps ’69 – ‘71, Klay & Monrovia
Licensed Educational Psychologist & School Counselor
Pleasanton, CA.
kttjsharon@comcast.net
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In Memory of Jim Kennedy
James Walden "Jim" Kennedy,
a former producer and writer for California television stations KCBS
and KCET, where he started the news program "Life & Times," has
died. He was 65. Jim and his former wife, Geraldine Kennedy, met as
Peace Corps volunteers, teaching in Liberia in 1962.
A graduate of Denison University in Granville, Ohio,
Kennedy earned a Master of Fine Arts degree in film production from
UCLA and spent 1968 to 1979 as an independent producer, writer and
editor of about 40 documentaries. He joined KCBS-TV Channel 2 in
1979 as a producer and writer for the news department's special
projects and investigative unit. He later became executive producer
of the station's documentary and public affairs unit.
Kennedy moved to KCET-TV Channel 28, Los Angeles' Public
Broadcast System outlet, in early 1986 as director of news and
current affairs. He soon became executive producer of two new public
affairs shows: "7:30" and "California Stories." When "Life & Times"
was launched in 1992, Kennedy served as its executive producer. The
concept for the Monday-through-Friday public affairs program, he
told The Times then, was to create a flexible and affordable format
for long and short pieces as well as discussions of current affairs.
. . .
During his television career, Kennedy won half a dozen
Emmys for public affairs programs and in 1982 shared a
Columbia-Dupont Journalism Award for his work in the KCBS
investigations unit.
In 1990, Kennedy became the publisher, managing editor and
chief salesman for Clover Park Press, a small publishing company he
started with Geraldine. Their first book was From the Center of
the Earth: Stories Out of the Peace Corps. It featured short
articles of fiction and nonfiction by former Peace Corps volunteers.
Geraldine is the author of Harmattan, one of the best
Peace Corps books, which begins and ends in Liberia, where, after
a big adventure crossing the Sahara, she decides to marry her
boyfriend, Jim.
Although he spent much of
his life in Santa Monica, Kennedy moved to Palo Alto in 1995 and
earned a second master's degree, in social work from San Jose State
University. He became a hospice counselor on death and dying.
In addition to his daughter, Laura, Kennedy is survived by
his second wife, Suzanne Abel; two sons, Peter and Alex; a
stepdaughter, Marina Vidor; his mother, Nancy Kennedy; two sisters,
Katy and Marianna Kennedy; and two grandchildren. . .
The family has asked that any donations be made to the
Friends of Liberia, 4300 16th St. NW, Washington, D.C., 20011, or to
Pathways Home Health & Hospice, 585 N. Mary Ave., Sunnyvale, CA
94085.
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