‘Just Chillin’ Upbeat September Serendipities


A little History...& More! by Ellie Schmidt ~ eschmidt@upbeattimes.com


Sonoma County, CA. ~ “A pic- ture is worth a thousand words,” the saying we all know means a visual image can impress us in a deeper, more meaningful way than any description using only words. Nowa- days, everyone ev- erywhere can feel the magic of being a pho- tographer—“Selfies”


for all, right?!? What a far cry from the fun of family members getting their first ex- citing Kodak camera. To me it was a magic box, as I watched my dad carefully open it and gently pull the apparatus with bellows out on to the built in “trolley-like” tracks.


Setting it up on a tripod,


aſter he squeezed about a dozen of us into a stand up line in the back and seated older folks in front, he called out “Ready! Everybody say cheese!” as he hip hopped to hug his way to join in the stiffly posed snapshot. Happy times, all right. Tess Flanders was a newspaper


editor in 1911 who wrote an ar- ticle about journalism and public- ity.


She advised: “Use a picture.


It’s worth a thousand words!” Business folks quickly learned the value of photographs and graphic images in their advertising. Happy 105th Birthday on Sep-


tember 30th to the astonishing Ruth Gruber. Tat NYC born lady still is a wizard surely! A giſted journalist, photographer, writer, and humanitarian still active in New York, Gruber gobbled up ed- ucation by graduating from NYU at 18 and completing a graduate fellowship at Univ of Wisconsin- Madison before winning an Insti- tute of International Education fel- lowship to study at the University of Cologne, Germany where she became the youngest person in the world to receive a Ph.D. in multi- disciplines.


She witnessed with foreboding the ominous early Nazi


rallies when completing her stud- ies. Finally safely back in America, she wrote for the New York Her- ald Tribune from 1932 on. Teir first foreign correspondent to fly through Siberia into the Soviet Arctic, dur- ing WWII, she served as special assistant to the Secretary of the Interior Ickes. Karen Michel of NPR cele- brated Gruber’s 100th birthday in a 2011 documentary: “A Woman of Photos and Firsts!” Roderick Andrew


Anthony Jude McDowall, better known to all “golden oldies” as Roddy, the boy actor in the fine old films: “How Green Was My


Valley” and “Lassie Come Home,” was born in Britain but became an American and a sensitive photog- rapher. He had a September 17th birthday. Much admired are his five books of exceptional portraits and feature stories. As an adult ac- tor he was popular in “Planet of the Apes,” but his work as President of the Academy of Motion Pictures is less well known. His endless sup- port of the Motion Picture Retire- ment Home resulted in a beauti- ful rose garden now named in his honor. Considering special roses: Te


Tousand-Year Rose which is also known as the Rose of Hildesheim, still grows on a wall of the Hildesheim Cathedral in Germa- ny. Te cathedral and St. Michael’s Church are both on the UNESCO


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