TUESDAY, APRIL 27, 2010

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OBITUARIES

PAUL SCHAEFER, 89

German leader of notorious sect in Chile

However, Colonia Dignidad’s

by Emma Brown

Paul Schaefer, 89, a German-

born evangelical preacher who was convicted of sexually abusing 25 children while leading one of the world’s most notorious anti- Semitic and apocalyptic sects, died April 24 of a heart ailment at a prison hospital in Chile. He was serving a 20-year sen- tence for the sexual abuse of chil- dren at his enclave in southern Chile, Colonia Dignidad, a place that human rights groups say doubled during the 1970s and ’80s as a detention and torture center for opponents of right- wing dictator Gen. Augusto Pi- nochet.

At the time of his death, Mr.

Schaefer was still under investi- gation in the 1985 disappearance of mathematician Boris Weisfeil- er, an American citizen who went missing while hiking near Co- lonia Dignidad.

At the time, the Chilean gov- ernment concluded that Weis- feiler, an experienced outdoors- man, drowned while attempting to cross a river. Years later, news reports said declassified State De- partment and CIA documents in- dicated that Weisfeiler, a Rus- sian-born Jew, was probably kid- napped by government security forces and taken to Mr. Schaefer’s commune. News reports said police found a folder bearing Weisfeiler’s name at the compound, and a Chilean military informant told U.S. officials that Weisfeiler was tortured and killed there. Mr. Schaefer was never charged with a crime in the case, which is still pending.

ALAN SILLITOE, 82

‘Angry Young Man’ of British literature

by Martin Weil

Alan Sillitoe, 82, a British au- thor whose fictional works “Sat- urday Night and Sunday Morn- ing” and “The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner” power- fully depicted revolt against au- thority by the young and the working class, died April 25 in a London hospital. The cause of death was not reported. His novel “Saturday Night and

Sunday Morning” (1958) and short story “The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner” (1959) were regarded as groundbreak- ing in their portrayals of the Brit- ish working class. They gave Mr. Sillitoe promi- nence among the so-called “An- gry Young Men” of British fiction, a group of authors that included John Osborne and Kingsley Amis. They created characters who seemed to represent the postwar decay of the British empire in their embittered view of their prospects. Writing in the Saturday Re-

view, critic James Yaffe praised Mr. Sillitoe’s “fluent, often bril- liant command of language, an acute ear for dialect, [and] a vir- tuoso ability to describe the sight, sound and smell of things.” Mr. Sillitoe, who wrote poems and essays in addition to fiction, saw himself as more a writer than social prophet, more an artist than polemicist. What he had produced with “Saturday Night and Sunday Morning,” he said, was not a “working class novel,” but simply a novel informed by his squalid childhood in the gray industrial city of Nottingham. The book featured an amoral

protagonist, Arthur Seaton, a sex- ually reckless Nottingham facto- ry worker who makes little effort to rise through playing by the rules or showing class solidarity. “That’s what all those looney

Trudy Fortuna

HAIRDRESSER

Trudy Fortuna, 92, a retired hairdresser who also worked in her husband’s shoe-repair shop, died April 12 at her home in Beth- esda. She had dementia. Mrs. Fortuna settled in Beth- esda in 1960, studied cosmetol- ogy and became a hairdresser at Heads of Bethesda, where she worked until 1975. She then helped her second husband, Jo- seph Fortuna, run Fortuna’s Shoe Repair Shop in Bethesda until re- tiring in 1984. Gertrude Cecelia Riordan was born in Solomon, Kan. In retire- ment, she lived in Sarasota, Fla., before returning to Bethesda in 2005. She was a past member of

laws are for, yer know,” Seaton says in the book, “to be broken by blokes like me.” As for joining with his fellows, he was scornful in rejecting the labor leader who “asks me to go to union meetings or sign a paper against what’s happening in Kenya. As if I cared.” Mr. Sillitoe wrote the screen-

play for the riveting 1960 film version of “Saturday Night and Sunday Morning,” which provid- ed Albert Finney with a star- making role as Seaton. Mr. Sillitoe also wrote the script for “The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner” (1962), starring Michael Redgrave as the supervisor of a brutal boys’ refor- matory who molds an inmate (played by Tom Courtenay) into a runner.

When the big race comes, the young man purposely loses, thwarting the supervisor’s effort to show his ability to correct the wayward. In doing this, he flouts authority but retains his self- respect. Mr. Sillitoe said he took the

screenwriting assignments to en- sure that the meaning of his work was preserved onscreen. He said he didn’t want Seaton, for exam- ple, to become a stereotypical movie tough guy “with after all, a heart of moral gold which has in it a love of the monarchy and all that old-fashioned muck.” Alan Sillitoe was born March 4, 1928, in Nottingham, into a work- ing-class family dominated by a violent father. Mr. Sillitoe got only a rudimentary formal educa- tion. But he said he was taught to read and write, and gained an in- terest in history and geography, “and that’s all I needed.” After factory work as a teen-

ager, he joined the Royal Air Force and was sent to Malaya as a radio operator. He contracted tu- berculosis, which led to several months in a hospital in England.

Trudy Fortuna

Our Lady of Lourdes Church in Bethesda. Her first marriage, to Peter Sulli- van, ended in divorce. Mrs. Fortu-

na’s second

husband, whom she married in 1969, died in 2005. Survivors include two sons from her first marriage, Peter Sul- livan of Niles, Kan., and Matthew Sullivan of Bethesda; four sisters, Thalia Funt of Bethesda, Betty Martin of Houston, Catherine “Cappy” Cramer of Lighthouse Point, Fla., and Janice Pugh of Abilene, Tex.; four grandchil-

For the next several years, he lived on a small disability pen- sion in France and Spain while convalescing. While in Majorca, he befriend- ed poet and novelist Robert Graves (“I, Claudius”), who en- couraged his fellow expatriate to write about the life he knew in Nottingham. The result, a few years later, was “Saturday Night and Sunday Morning.” His later books included “Key to the Door” (1961), which is par- tially set in Malaya and features Seaton’s brother Brian, as well as volumes of children’s fiction, travel writing, poetry, criticism and memoirs. In 1959, he married poet Ruth Fainlight. Besides his wife, survi-

dren; eight great-grandchildren; and a great-great-granddaughter.

— Matt Schudel

Gordon K. Prouty

USAID OFFICER

Gordon K. Prouty, 87, who

oversaw food aid projects for the U.S. Agency for International De- velopment, died April 10 at Inova Fairfax Hospital. The cause was complications from internal injuries after he was hit March 31 while crossing Broad Street near Lee Highway in Falls Church, his family said. Mr. Prouty managed branch of-

fices of American Express in Eu- rope before joining USAID in 1960. He served in South Amer- ica, West Africa and briefly in

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Paul Schaefer avoided arrest for decades, mainly because of his ties to influential leaders.

Mr. Schaefer turned to preach-

ing after serving in the German military during World War II. He traveled the German countryside with an acoustic guitar and a message of salvation through sex- ual abstinence. Armed with pow- erful charisma and a gift for pub- lic speaking, he collected hun- dreds of followers before eventually establishing an or- phanage near Bonn. Accused of molesting two boys

at the orphanage, he fled to Chile in 1961 and started his commune on a picturesque ranch 225 miles south of Santiago. The enclave boasted its own landing strip, television station and power plant, as well as lumber, honey and brick-making businesses. Mr. Schaefer built a school and a hos- pital, winning over some local cit- izens by offering them free educa- tion and health care.

darker side soon emerged. For- mer members of the sect told re- porters and Chilean and German officials of Mr. Schaefer’s unsa- vory tendencies. He was always accompanied by a handpicked coterie of boys who ran his er- rands, brushed his hair and tied his shoes. He maintained total control over the lives of his fol- lowers, the former members said, forbidding contact with the out- side world and using electric shocks and tranquilizers to pun- ish those who broke his rules. Babies were taken from their mothers at birth and raised in a communal nursery. All adults were known as “uncle” or “aunt”; Mr. Schaefer was called “perma- nent uncle.” Mr. Schaefer avoided arrest for decades, largely because of his close relationships with political and military leaders — including Pinochet, who was brought to power by a 1973 coup d’etat. Thousands of political dissidents disappeared or were killed dur- ing Pinochet’s rule, and human rights groups say that many were taken to Colonia Dignidad, or Dignity Colony, where they were tortured in underground cham- bers.

Pinochet left the presidency in 1990. Mr. Schaefer escaped a 1997 police raid and continued to evade law enforcement officials until 2005, when he was arrested in Argentina. He was extradited to Chile, where he had been con- victed in absentia of sexually abusing minors. Chilean police found a military arsenal buried at Colonia Digni- dad, including 92 machine guns, 104 semiautomatic weapons,

more than 1,800 hand grenades and an unknown number of sur- face-to-air missiles. They

also

found files detailing how people had been “disappeared,” de- tained and tortured there during the Pinochet era. In 2006, Mr. Schaefer was sen- tenced to 20 years for sexually abusing minors and three years for violating weapons laws. In 2008, he received additional sen- tences for torturing colony resi- dents and for killing an allegedly traitorous security agent who had served under Pinochet. Paul Schaefer was born near Bonn in 1921. He had a glass eye, having accidentally gouged out his right eye while trying to untie a shoelace knot with a fork. He joined the Nazi youth movement before becoming a Luftwaffe medic stationed in France during World War II. The members of Mr. Schaefer’s unnamed sect publicly apolo- gized for their Pinochet-era abuses in 2006 with a full-page advertisement in a leading Chil- ean newspaper. Mr. Schaefer was to blame, they said. “He allowed our villa to be used for the detention and repression of people persecuted” by Pino- chet, they wrote. Colony mem- bers “became real slaves of Schaefer, like robots dedicated only to obey his orders.” Mr. Schaefer’s survivors could not be confirmed. The Chilean government controls his former colony, whose name was officially changed in 1991 to Villa Baviera. An estimated 300 people still live there, according to a 2009 Agence France-Presse report.

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William G. Whyte, who was president of the National Capitol Area Council of Boy Scouts of America and received one of Scouting’s

highest honors, shared an interest in the organization with President Gerald R. Ford.

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WILLIAM G. WHYTE, 94

U.S. Steel executive and friend of President Ford

by Adam Bernstein

William G. Whyte, 94, who was the top Washington public relations and lobbying official for U.S. Steel and one of Presi- dent Gerald R. Ford’s closest ac- quaintances, died April 21 at the Methodist Home of the District of Columbia, a retirement com- munity. He had congestive heart failure. Mr. Whyte spent more than 25 years with Pittsburgh-based U.S. Steel, rising to become vice president of public affairs and assistant to the chairman before retiring in 1977. As a representative of a power-

ful U.S. industry, Mr. Whyte was one of the most influential be- hind-the-scenes players on Capi- tol Hill in the 1960s and 1970s. His legislative focus was wide- ranging, including trade and tax negotiations that affected steel imports. He also tracked bills of con- cern to the railroad industry. “If Penn Central ever stopped oper- ating,” he once explained, “we would, too.” Mr. Whyte drew media atten- tion for his friendship with Ford, a former Michigan congressman who served as President Richard M. Nixon’s vice president before succeeding Nixon in the White House in 1974. Neither Mr. Whyte nor Ford could recall pre- cisely how they met, but Mr. Whyte had long been active in Republican politics. Over the years, Mr. Whyte ad- dressed the friendship gingerly —always careful not to make the president appear too close to the concerns of big business. In ad- dition to his work with U.S. Steel, Mr. Whyte was a vice chairman of the U.S. Chamber of Com- merce and worked with many other pro-business organiza- tions. Mr. Whyte described himself

HARPER & ROW

Mr. Sillitoe’s work was the basis for two critically praised films about young English men rebelling against ’50s society.

vors include their two children. In today’s society, Mr. Sillitoe recently told LeftLion, the Web site of Nottingham culture, rebel- lion is far more difficult than it once was. “You can’t do anything,” he

said. “You walk around and they’ve got cameras looking at you.” Urinate on a street corner, he said, and “they take a picture.” By the end of his life, Mr. Silli- toe said, he had become two peo- ple: One, he said, thinks “good, get drunk . . . why not.” The other he said, thinks, “no, don’t do it, learn, be careful, hoard your money, work as hard as you can.” But, he said, it was person No. 1 whom “I can’t help admiring.”

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Vietnam and Central America be- fore retiring in the 1980s. He had a home in the Washing- ton area since 1977 and was an Arlington resident. Gordon Keith Prouty was a na- tive of Spencer, Mass., and a Navy veteran of World War II. He was a 1945 graduate of Colgate Univer- sity in Hamilton, N.Y. He received a master’s degree in foreign af- fairs from Clark University in Worcester, Mass., and a master’s degree in food science from Cor- nell University in New York. His marriage to Helga Wodrich

Prouty ended in divorce. Survivors include two children,

Thomas and Kathryn Prouty, both of Germany; a brother, Rich- ard Prouty of Front Royal, Va.

— Adam Bernstein

Trustee Sale Notices

850 Montgomery County

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE COUNTY OF MONTGOMERY,MARYLAND

JOHN S.BURSON ET AL

TRUSTEE(S)

Plaintiff(s)

JANET BUBUI

Defendant(s) Mortgagor(s)

vs. CIVIL NO. 316656V

AMENDED NOTICE

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THIS 5TH

day of APRIL, 2010 by the Circuit

Court for the COUNTY OF MONT- GOMERY, Maryland, and by the authority thereof, that the sale

made by JOHN S. BURSON, WIL- LIAM M.SAVAGE,GREGORYN. BRIT- TO, JASON MURPHY, KRISTINE D. BROWN AND ERIK W. YODER,

Trustees, of the Real Property des-

ignated as 34 SEEK COURT, TAKO- MA PARK,MD 20912, and reported

in the above entitled cause, will be finally ratified and confirmed, unless cause to the contrary thereof be shown on or before

the 5TH day of MAY, 2010 next;

provided a copy of this order be inserted in THE WASHINGTON POST, 1150 15TH STREET, Wash- ington, D.C. 20071 published in said COUNTY OF MONTGOMERY once a week for three successive

weeks before the 5TH day of MAY, 2010.

The report states the amount of the sale to be $205,000.00

Loretta E. Knight

Clerk of the Circuit Court For County of Montgomery

852 Anne Arundel County

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT

FORANNEARUNDEL COUNTY

JOHN E. DRISCOLL, III, et al.

Substitute Trustees

MICHAEL C. KLIM

Defendant

Versus No. C-09-145808

NOTICE

Notice is hereby issued this 5TH

day of APRIL, 2010, That the sale

of the property in the proceedings mentioned, made and reported

by Daniel J. Pesachowitz, Substi-

tute Trustee. BE RATIFIED AND CONFIRMED, unless cause to the contrary thereof be shown on or

before the 5TH day of MAY, 2010,

next; Provided a copy of this Notice be inserted in some news- paper published in Anne Arundel County, once in each of three successive weeks before the 5TH

day of MAY 2010, next. The report

states that the amount of the sale of the property at 1340 TANOOK

COURT, ANNAPOLIS, MD 21409 to be $166,000.00.

Robert P. Duckworth

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as Ford’s “friend and golfing companion,” but Ford called Mr. Whyte a trusted adviser on a range of concerns, the New York Times reported. Their ties were deepened by their mutual inter- est in Scouting activities. Mr. Whyte served as president of the National Capitol Area Council of Boy Scouts of America

and proudly called Ford the first Eagle Scout to become com- mander in chief. Mr. Whyte got Ford to address a major Scouting meeting in Hawaii in 1974. Mr. Whyte retired from U.S. Steel a year after Ford lost his election campaign to Jimmy Carter. William George Whyte was a

native of Chicago and a 1937 graduate of the University of Illi- nois at Urbana-Champaign. He served in the Army in Europe during World War II and was an officer of the truck caravan known as the Red Ball Express that kept the military supplied with gasoline and other staples. His decorations included the Le- gion of Merit and the Bronze Star Medal. From 1982 to 1984, Mr. Whyte

served as world president of the United Service Organizations, a group engaged in morale-boost- ing activities for the military. He received a top Defense Depart- ment award for his USO work. In addition, the Boy Scouts be- stowed one of its highest honors on Mr. Whyte for his work ac- quiring the Goshen Scout Reser- vation, a camping area of more than 4,000 acres in southwest- ern Virginia. His first wife, Peggy Paine

Whyte, died in 1997. His second wife, Margaret Zoll Whyte, died in 2008 after 10 years of mar- riage. Surviving are his two sons, W. Kirby Whyte of Glen Echo and Roger J. Whyte of Chevy Chase; two stepchildren, David Zoll of Towson, Md., and Peg Z. Van Vlack of Oak Hill, Va.; and nine grandchildren. Mr. Whyte was part of an inner circle Ford relied on when he needed to escape the pressure of high office. The two men often golfed together at Burning Tree Club in Bethesda. Mr. Whyte, who long knew

Ford by his nickname “Jerry,” said he often had to remind him- self of certain formalities when speaking to the most powerful man in the world. Ford, he said, would tease him.

“I telephoned him from out of town about something and ad- dressed him as Mr. President,” Mr. Whyte said. “And he said, ‘Yes, Mister Whyte.’ ”

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