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LECH KACZYNSKI, 60
Anti-communist Polish president rose to power with twin brother
Polish President Lech Kaczyn- ski, 60, a former anti-communist dissident who came to power with his twin brother in 2005 promising a “moral revolution,” died April 10 in a plane crash near Smolensk, Russia. His wife, Maria, and Poland’s central bank governor, Slawomir Skrzypek, also died in the crash. Mr. Kaczynski was elected president in October 2005, one month after the Law and Justice party, which he founded with his brother Jaroslaw, won a parlia- mentary election. Jaroslaw Kac- zynski became Poland’s prime minister in 2006, giving the iden- tical twins control of both the presidency and the government. Mr. Kaczynski and his brother took a strongly pro-U.S. stance and supported plans to place a U.S. missile-defense facility in their country. They pledged to stamp out corruption and shake up a system that they considered rife with communist-era officials in control of politics and busi- ness. In 2007, Jaroslaw Kaczynksi was voted out of office in early elections after his governing coa- lition fell apart. Lech Kaczynski was expected to announce his bid for reelection as president next month, although he was trailing Prime Minister Donald Tusk in early polls. Lech Kaczynski was born June 18, 1949, and he and his brother achieved fame as child actors in a hit 1962 movie, “Those Two Who Would Steal the Moon,” about troublemaking twins who try to get rich by stealing the moon and
selling it. In the 1970s and 1980s, the brothers were activists in the an- ti-communist opposition and went on to serve as advisers to Solidarity founder Lech Walesa. Lech Kaczynski, a graduate of
the University of Warsaw, re- ceived a doctorate in labor law from the University of Gdansk, where he went on to teach. After Walesa was elected presi- dent in 1990, Mr. Kaczynski be- came his chief adviser on security issues, but their friendship ended over political differences. Mr. Kaczynski served as Po-
land’s justice minister in 2000-01, and his tough stand on crime laid the foundation for the popularity that would fuel his rise to the presidency. He became mayor of Warsaw in 2001 and won respect for his no-nonsense, plainspoken style. His opponents, however,
viewed him as provincial and overzealous in his drive to cleanse the country of the influ- ence of former communists. Hu- man rights groups also criticized him for trying to stop a gay rights parade through Poland’s capital. Mr. Kaczynski was a friend of
Poland’s resurgent Jewish com- munity and, in 2008, was the first head of state to attend a religious service at a synagogue in Poland. As mayor, he promoted a planned museum on Jewish history by do- nating city land to the project. Survivors include a daughter; his brother and mother; and two granddaughters.
— From news services and staff reports
A LOCAL LIFE HERBERT COLLINS, 88
the U.S. Coast Guard and carry- ing on a family tradition that dat- ed to the 19th century. He was inspired by the men of
Coast Guard officer upheld family tradition
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by T. Rees Shapiro
rowing up on North Caro- lina’s Outer Banks, Herbert Collins dreamed of joining
Pea Island Station, not far from his home in Manteo, on Roanoke Island, where his great-uncle, grandfather and father had pa- trolled the beaches looking out for distressed ships in the feared “graveyard of the Atlantic.” “I would watch the surfmen come home and always admired their uniform,” he told a Coast Guard newsletter in 2008. “I said to myself that I was going to get in the Coast Guard and Pea Is- land Station.” Herbert Malachi Collins, 88, who died of metastatic cancer March 14 at his home in Olney, often told stories of his family’s close connection with the Coast Guard and Pea Island, the only facility ever to be entirely staffed by African Americans. By the time Lt. Collins retired in 1973, his family held the record for longest continuous service in the Coast Guard, dating to 1880 with his grandfather Joseph Ber- ry.
Lt. Collins’s great-uncle, Dor-
man Pugh, served at Pea Island with the U.S. Life-Saving Service — an early series of rescue out- posts later added to the Coast Guard— and was part of a seven- man crew that took part in one of the most historic rescues in the Coast Guard’s history but whose bravery went unrecognized for a century. On Oct. 11, 1896, Capt. Richard Etheridge, a former slave, and the first commanding officer of Pea Island, led six of his men, in- cluding Pugh, on a two-mile march through hurricane-force winds on a seemingly suicidal rescue on the Outer Banks. A three-masted schooner, the
E.S. Newman, had run aground in the middle of a torrential storm and was in danger of breaking up. After a six-hour ef- fort, the rescue was a success and the all-black team saved nine of the Newman’s crew, including the ship’s white captain, his wife and their children. But the seven men who risked their lives on the mission were never rewarded because of the color of their skin. It was not un- til 1996, 100 years later, that each of the rescuers posthumously re- ceived the Coast Guard Gold Life- saving Medal, the service’s most prestigious honor for water res- cues.
Lt. Collins enlisted in the Coast Guard in 1939, shortly after his 18th birthday. After boot camp in Florida, he was assigned to a cut-
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OBITUARIES
Philip Deines-Jones
ASTROPHYSICIST
Philip Deines-Jones, 48, an as-
trophysicist who worked for the past 12 years at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, died April 3 of anaphylactic shock on Sligo Creek Trail in Wheaton. He had apparently been stung by a bee. At the time of his death, Dr. Deines-Jones was the instrument scientist for NASA’s Gravity and Extreme Magnetism Small Ex- plorer (GEMS) mission. The mis- sion’s aim is to study black holes and the magnetic fields near magnetars, dead stars whose magnetic fields are trillions of times stronger than Earth’s. Philip Vern Jones was a native of Oconomowoc, Wis., and a physics and mathematics gradu- ate of the University of Wisconsin at Madison. In 1996, he received a doctorate in physics from Louisi- ana State University. After graduate school, Dr. Deines-Jones moved to Silver Spring to work at Goddard. He enjoyed astronomy outside work as well and constructed an observatory at his home that used computer software to overcome urban light pollution when he photographed the heavens. He also enjoyed cooking and food photography, and with his wife, he contributed to the food blog
realfoodfans.com.
Survivors include his wife of 21 years, Courtney Deines-Jones of Silver Spring; and two brothers, Christopher Jones of Rochester, Minn., and Dumont “Marc” Jones of Columbus, Ohio.
— Emma Brown
SUNDAY, APRIL 11, 2010
Associates, a lighting company, died March 31 at her home in Glen Burnie. A spokesman for the Maryland medical examiner’s of- fice said the cause of her death is pending further investigation. Ms. Scott worked in the light- ing industry for more than 25 years and had worked with One Source for the past 10 years. Christina Marie Groff, a Wash-
ington native, was a graduate of La Plata High School, where she was a member of the National Honor Society. Her marriage to David Scott ended in divorce. Survivors include her fiance,
David Dellosa of Centreville, Va.; three children from her marriage, Shawn Scott of Riva and Kirsten Angel and Megan Scott, both of Pasadena, Md.; her parents, Da- vid and Marlene Groff of Homo- sassa, Fla.; two brothers, Brian Groff of Waldorf and Ted Groff of Northampton, Pa.; and two grandchildren.
— T. Rees Shapiro
Enid N. Warner
CHURCH MEMBER, GARDENER
Enid N. Warner, 96, a founding member of the McLean Garden Club and a volunteer at Alexan- dria’s Green Spring Gardens, died March 10 at Goodwin House, a re- tirement community in Alexan- dria, of complications from a stroke. Mrs. Warner was a member of
VASILY FEDOSENKO/REUTERS
Lech Kaczynski and his wife, Maria, shown in a 2005 photo, were among 97 people killed in a plane crash in Russia, officials said.
FAMILY PHOTO
Margaret W. Glennon taught at Yorktown High in Arlington.
Margaret W. Glennon
CHEMISTRY TEACHER
Margaret W. Glennon, 90, a re- tired chemistry teacher at York- town High School in Arlington County, died March 11 at her home at Goodwin House Alexan- dria. She had a stroke. Mrs. Glennon taught at York- town from 1963 to 1981. She was a member of Delta Kappa Gamma, an honor society for teachers, and volunteered with the Salvation Army and at military hospitals. Margaret Ellen Wyatte was born in Mebane, N.C., and was a graduate of Woman’s College of the University of North Carolina (now the University of North Carolina at Greensboro). In 1942, she received a master’s degree in chemistry from Smith College in Northampton, Mass. She served in the Navy Waves during World War II, as a super- visor of a weapons program at In- dian Head, Md. After her marriage to a Marine Corps officer in 1945, her son said, Mrs. Glennon and family moved 12 times before settling in Arlington in 1962. Her husband of 62 years, re-
tired Marine Col. James B. Glen- non Jr., died in 2008. Their son John Lejeune Glennon died in 2006. Survivors include three chil-
dren, James B. Glennon III of Great Falls, Mary G. Vincent of Potomac and Laura G. Woodruff of San Diego; nine grandchil- dren; and three great-grandchil- dren.
— Matt Schudel
Christina G. Scott
SALES REPRESENTATIVE
Christina G. Scott, 50, a sales representative with One Source
FAMILY PHOTO
Lt. Herbert Collins served in the U.S. Coast Guard at the all-black Pea Island Station in North Carolina.
ter as a mess attendant. He was the only black man on the ship, and his duties included shining shoes, serving meals and scrub- bing dishes. He was transferred to Pea Is- land in late 1940 and served there for the remainder of World War II under the command of his uncle, Maxie Berry Sr. Lt. Collins spent his time on Pea Island go- ing on patrols of the beaches and participating in rescue opera- tions, rowing to sea in small life- boats amid the heavy surf. In 1947, the Coast Guard decid- ed to close Pea Island Station. Af- ter everyone else had packed and left, Lt. Collins stayed behind and was put in charge of filing the necessary paperwork for its decommissioning. His last task as keeper of Pea
Island Station was to shutter its doors and turn the lock. “I personally felt like we were
making history,” Lt. Collins said in 1979. “The crews took pride in being the only all-black crew and in keeping up the station.” He climbed up the promotion- al ladder of enlisted men and was eventually offered an officer’s commission. At his retirement in 1973, he was an assistant director of the Coast Guard Auxiliary sta- tioned in Washington. He then served for 15 years with the U.S. Customs Service be- fore joining the National Trans- portation Safety Board for two years as a marine accident inves- tigator. A pilot and certified fly- ing instructor, in retirement Lt. Collins helped manage the Naval Academy Flying Club. Survivors include his wife of 62 years, Gertrude Jones Collins of Olney; three children, Deb- orah Jefferson of Silver Spring, Marshall Collins of Gaithersburg and Joan Collins of Silver Spring;
his twin brother, who also served in the Coast Guard, Hubert Col- lins of Norfolk; three grandchil- dren; and three great-grandchil- dren.
“Lieutenant Collins[’s] service to the Coast Guard and our na- tion is significant, especially in light of the challenges that Afri- can Americans faced as the serv- ice was integrated,” Adm. Thad Allen, the Coast Guard comman- dant, said in a statement. Earlier in his career, Lt. Collins
served aboard the U.S. Coast Guard cutter Mendota out of Norfolk, where he shared a bunk with another young man, Alex Haley. Haley, too, harbored a fas- cination with family history, and decades after his Coast Guard service, he wrote “Roots,” a Pulit- zer Prize-winning book that traced generations of black his- tory in Africa and America.
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IANARTHUR McDONALD April 11, 1968 - July 23, 1996
Loving you and missing you every day.
Mom
April 11, 1925 - October 25, 2002
Thinking of you with love on your birthday. Heartfelt memories of you will always endure. Happy Birthday!
All My Love, Elinor
ELLIS E. HARRIS
MCDONALD
the Ikebana International flower- arranging society and of St. John’s Episcopal Church in Mc- Lean. She lived in McLean for more than 50 years before mov- ing to a retirement community in Alexandria in 1998. Enid Noland was born in Rich- wood, W.Va., and moved to Wash- ington with her family when she was a girl. She graduated from Eastern High School and from what is now Fairmont State Uni- versity in West Virginia. She worked for National Secu-
rity Trust Bank in the District be- fore marrying George F. Warner, the owner of a plumbing busi- ness, in 1937. She served as the company’s bookkeeper before she had children and became a full- time homemaker. Her husband died in 1996. Survivors include two children,
Velda Warner of Paeonian Springs and George E. Warner of the District; and two grandchil- dren.
— Emma Brown
INMEMORIAM
DALY
April 13, 1931 - October 1, 2006 In Loving Memory
For part of us went with you The day God called you home.
your husband Ron, and family
GOFF
ESTELLE C. GOFF 1/5/1923 - 4/13/2003
Mother/Grandmother Dear, we miss you ever, miss your kind and loving care,
but we know your home is in heaven and some day we'll meet you there.
Love, Donal, Ronal and Hilda;
Kim, Duane, Alaina, Aaron, Katrice and Matt
HARRIS
With enduring love,
He only takes the best But you didn’t go alone
JANET C.DALY
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