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Passed On
Robert S. Mullaney an aeronautical engineer who helped oversee the construction
of the craft that landed Apollo astronauts on the moon, died at his home
in Bellport, New York, on July 6. He was 82.
Mullaney was a former Navy pilot who had a hand in the development of
fighter planes at the Grumman Corp-oration and became manager of the Lunar
Excursion Module program in 1962. It was tested in space in March 1969 on
the Apollo 9 mission and made its historic landing four months later on
the Apollo 11 mission.
Mullaney, who was born in the Irish suburb of Oak Park, Illinois, earned
a bachelor’s degree from University of Notre Dame and a master’s from the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is survived by four children and
three grandchildren. His wife, Helen Marie, died in 1986 and his first child,
Patricia Ann died in 1963.
– From The New York Times
Gary MacEoin, who wrote, edited and contributed to more than two dozen
books on Latin American social conditions and the Roman Catholic Church,
died on July 9, in Leesburg, Virginia. He was 94 and a resident of San Antonio.
MacEoin, who was born in County Sligo, and had studied for the priesthood
before making his name as an author, served as an adjunct professor at Fordham
and Fairleigh Dickinson and lectured at Columbia and other universities.
Conversant in several languages, he held editorial positions at Spanish
and Portuguese publications in New York and contributed to Time and Life,
Reuters and other news agencies.
MacEoin’s wife, Josephine Delaney MacEoin, died in 1985. He is survived
by a son, Donald, and a stepdaughter Kristina, three sisters, and three
grandchildren.
Robert J. Donovan, the author of PT-109, died in St. Petersburg, Florida.
He was 90. Donovan, a “shoe leather” reporter without a college education,
became a Washington correspondent, best-selling author and presidential
historian, best know for PT-109, his stirring account of John F. Kennedy’s
war experience. In all Donovan wrote 14 books including Conflict and Crisis:
The Presidency of Harry S. Truman, 1945-48.
Born in Buffalo, in 1912, Donovan could not afford college in the Depression
years, but he got a job at The Courier-Express earning $6 a week as a copy
boy. An editor at The New York Herald Tribune “tired of hiring Yale University
graduates”gave him a break and a 26-year career with the Tribune followed.
His journalism career was interrupted by World War II when Donovan was
drafted by the Army. In 1957 he became the Tribune’s Washington bureau chief
and in 1963 was wooed by the Los Angeles Times, which was looking to strengthen
its journalism coverage.
He is survived by Patricia and Peter, his children from his first marriage
to Martha Fisher, who died in 1974, and by his second wife, Gerry Van Der
Heuvel, whom he married in 1978, and his stepchildren, Claudia and Heidi.
– From The New York Times
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