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Alyce Blau Shames
Alyce and her family moved to College Park in 1949 when her husband brought a dry cleaning business to the community. When her three daughters were old enough Alyce went back to work as a librarian, first with Seminole County...
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Carl Langford
Orlando native and lifelong resident, former Mayor Carl Langford passed away on July 9, 2011. Read his obituary on Legacy.com
By Mark Schlueb, Orlando Sentinel
7:19 p.m. EDT, July 14, 2011
Carl Langford, the city's longest-serving mayor, was laid to r...
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Elie Wiesel, Helen Greenspun, and Pauline Korman
Photo of Elie Wiesel with Holocaust survivor Helen Greenspun and her daughter, Pauline Korman, Executive Director of the Holocaust Memorial Resource & Education Center of Florida at the Annual Dinner of Tribute in Orlando.
Elie Wiesel and Natha...
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Hamburgers in Hog's Heaven
ABOVE: Photo of Father John McCormick at work in the office at Saint James Catholic Cathedral in downtown Orlando, 215 North Orange Avenue. Dublin born Fr. McCormick earned a Licentiate in Theology from Angelicum University and was ordained to ...
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Kris Woodson
Interview with Kris Woodson - Life in Orlando
June 30, 2011: Kris Woodson talks to Shane Roopnarine about growing up in Orlando, her favorite Orlando memory, and gives us a glimpse of how things have changed in the City Beautiful.
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Charlie French, Aeronautical Engineer
ABOVE: SLAT: Supersonic Low Altitude Target. Pictured here are (left to right) Charlie French (Areodynamics), Mendel Mullinax (Model Mechanic) and Lawrence Gilbert (Aerodynamics.)
Charlie French worked 36 years for Martin Marietta (now Lockheed Martin) and se...
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Betty Hurd Cramer
ABOVE: Betty Hurd Cramer Celebrates 90th Birthday.
Betty Jane Kepler Hurd Cramer and her family moved to central Florida in 1951. Her husband (William P. Hurd) found employment as an accountant and became Orlando General Hospital's first administrator bef...
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Joseph J. Cangelose, Staff Sergeant at Orlando's Army Air Base
November 3rd, 1997 Orlando Sentinel obituary article for Joseph J. Cangelose detailing his service to the Orlando community and to our country.
Cangelose served as staff sergeant at Orlando's Army Air Base at Primrose and Robinson Street, worked as an a...
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Joe Cangelose, Supervisory Auditor at the Naval Training Center
December 22, 1981 article from the NAV-A-GATOR, on Joe Cangelose's three service career at the Naval Training Center in Orlando.
Joseph J. Cangelose first came to the Orlando Army Air Base in 1942. The base was located at the corner of...
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Helen Greenspun with Sir Martin Gilbert
Photo of Holocaust survivor Helen Greenspun with British historian Sir Martin Gilbert.
Gilbert has written extensively on the State of Israel, the Holocaust, and World War II. He is the author of what became the most voluminous biography ever written on...
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A T & T Honors Helen Greenspun
A T & T honors Holocaust survivor Helen Greenspun for her presentation to their organization on her Holocaust experiences.
Helen Greenspun has lived in Central Florida since 1973 and was recognized by Orlando Magazine, January 2010, as a "Good n...
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Joan Buning, St. James Cathedral Parishioner
Joan Buning of St. James Cathedral expresses her gratitude for life in the United States in this excerpt from an oral history interview conducted on April 21, 2011.
Mr. and Mrs. Bill Buning lived in the last family home on Lake...
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