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Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Blacksburg civic leader dies at 90

Emily Stuart "started so many things that are now just ingrained in Blacksburg," said Mayor Ron

Rordam.

By Jeff Sturgeon

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Emily Stuart, a civic leader who brought vibrancy to the YMCA at Virginia Tech and co-founded a

housing project that has helped an estimated 200,000 people, has died. She was 90.

Stuart died early Tuesday at her Blacksburg home, caregiver Ginger Travis said. Stuart had suffered

from health ailments for several years.

The Georgia-born, college-educated Stuart spent the first segment of her adult life engaged in the U.S.

civil rights movement, arranging for interested white college students to meet with black peers when

social norms forbade such contact.

She moved to Blacksburg at midlife, immersed herself in community service and became what Virginia

Tech president Charles Steger Tuesday called an extraordinary citizen. She launched YMCA programs

that continue today while leading the campus Y for 17 years and helped start Christiansburg-based

Community Housing Partners.

"She started so many things that are now just ingrained in Blacksburg," said Blacksburg Mayor Ron

Rordam, who farmed a plot in Stuart's yard that was the forerunner to Blacksburg's community garden

off North Main Street.

Stuart was born Mary Emily Cottingham in Douglas, Ga., earned a bachelor's degree in sociology from

Duke University and studied social work at UNC-Chapel Hill. As a staff member at the YWCA at

Georgia State College for Women in the mid 1940s, she arranged for white students to meet black

college students at a Y-sponsored conference aimed at improving race relations and opposing

segregation, said Helen Lewis of Morganton, Ga., who was a student there and who calls Stuart a

mentor.

In one such outing Stuart arranged, Lewis spent a weekend in a dorm with black students at Atlanta

University. It was one of many meetings of young minds that "changed my whole outlook on life," said

Lewis, who went on to teach at the University of Virginia-Wise for 20 years and become an advocate for

social justice.

Stuart's campus apartment "was the center of wonderful discussions along with good food," Lewis wrote

in a tribute. "There were study groups, discussions with visiting speakers and a safe space for a group of

young women to question the stereotypes, Jim Crow laws, economic inequalities we had taken for

granted. We changed under the gentle, loving care of Emily and the learning opportunities she

provided."

Stuart later met her husband, Bob, who pursued a career in urban planning, and they had two children,

Rob of Blacksburg and Mary, who lives in Baltimore. The Stuarts lived in Illinois, New York, Ohio and

North Carolina before settling in the Glade Road area, a rural part of Blacksburg.

Said Bob Stuart, 93: "She was a great spirit for all of us, one of those people that you're sad they're gone

but somehow that spirit lives with you and guides you."

Emily Stuart was at home in the country. A naturalist, she fertilized her garden with leaves and had the

thrift to rinse and reuse plastic bags. She spent much time on area trails and is captured in a color artistic

sketch that hangs at the Y in which she points skyward -- probably at a bird, another of her passions --

while leading a hike.

The family home was often opened to students needing housing, including Steger and his wife, Janet,

when they were in graduate school.

In one of her most notable civic accomplishments, Stuart led the campus Y at Virginia Tech in 1970

when it operated from two rooms at the Squires Student Center and was virtually without funds. Under

her, the Y launched multiple programs that continue today, including an arts and crafts fair that draws

4,000 people a year, a thrift shop that sees 15,000 to 20,000 transactions a year, and an educational

program called Open University, whose offerings range from foreign language to photography and

dance.

Serving as executive director until 1988, Stuart was responsible for many far-reaching programs that

help fund today's Y services, said Gail Billingsley, who directs the campus Y now. The Y has a $1.1

million budget, employs 54 people and has 600 student volunteers.

Janaka Casper, president and CEO of Community Housing Partners, said Emily Stuart was a founding

board member behind Project Home Repair in the early 1970s, under which students fixed the run-down

homes of low-income area residents. Later formalized into a corporation, it was the basis for what has

become a multistate organization with a $50 million budget and 350 employees. The organization says

206,000 people have received services through the years.

"She was a major influence around the New River Valley in social justice, caring for people of low

wealth. We're all saddened by her departure but she leaves behind a tremendous legacy of good work,"

Casper said.

A memorial service will be scheduled in July in Blacksburg, the family said.

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The name "Nummulites" is a diminutive form of the Latin nummulus meaning "little coin", a reference to their shape. In 1913, Randolph Kirkpatrick published a book, The Nummulosphere: an account of the Organic Origin of so-called Igneous Rocks and Abyssal Red Clays, proposing the theory that all rocks have been constructed by the accumulation of forams such as Nummulites.

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Ratko Mladic, above, in 1993. Via the New York Times:

Ratko Mladic, the fugitive accused of masterminding the massacre at Srebrenica in 1995, had been captured but refused to give details.

Mr. Mladic, a former Bosnian Serb general, was one of the world’s most wanted criminals, evading capture for more than 15 years despite an increasing international effort to hunt him down. Serbian news reports said that he was living under the name of Milorad Komadic and was captured after a tip that he had identification documents for Mladic and appeared physically similar.

Mr. Mladic was blamed for the worst ethnically motivated mass murder on the Continent since World War II that resulted in the massacre of about 8,000 Muslim men and boys from the Bosnian town of Srebrenica.

Mr. Mladic had become the main obstacle to Serbia’s candidacy to join the European Union. He had been in hiding since 1995, widely believed to be protected by allies in the Serbian military and intelligence.

(Photo: Petar Kujundzic / Reuters via the New York Times)

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 From Jacksonville to Tampa, Florida (CNN) -- If you thought you had less than three perfectly healthy months to live, what would you do? Would you travel? Spend time with loved ones? Appreciate the joy life has given you?
Or would you ditch your kids and grandkids, join strangers in a caravan of RVs and travel the country warning people about the end of the world?
If you're Sheila Jonas, that's exactly what you'd do.
"This is so serious, I can't believe I'm here," says Jonas, who's been on the road since fall. Like her cohorts, she's "in it 'til the end," which she believes is coming in May.
She won't talk about her past because, "There is no other story. ... We are to warn the people. Nothing else matters."
Such faith and concern drove her and nine others, all loyal listeners of the Christian broadcasting ministry Family Radio, to join the radio station's first "Project Caravan" team.
They walked away from work, families and communities in places as far-flung as California, Kansas, Utah and New Jersey. Among them are an electrician, a TV satellite dish installer, a former chef, an international IT consultant and a man who had worked with the developmentally disabled.
They gave away cars, pets, music collections and more to relatives, friends and neighbors. Some items they kicked to the curb. In homes that weren't emptied, clothes are still hanging in closets, and dishes, books and furniture -- including one man's antique collection -- are gathering dust. Unless, of course, they've been claimed by others. If you believe it's all going to be over soon, why would it matter if you close the front door, much less lock it, when you walk away?
It's a mid-winter morning in Jacksonville, Florida, when CNN joins this faithful caravan. The "ambassadors," as they call themselves, are easy to spot. They are the 10 people milling about in an RV park drawing stares, eye rolls, under-the-breath mutters and, at times, words of support.
They're wearing sweatshirts and other clothing announcing the "Awesome News," that Judgment Day is coming on May 21. On that day, people who will be saved will be raptured up to heaven. The rest will endure exactly 153 days of death and horror before the world ends on October 21. That message is splashed across their five sleek, vinyl-wrapped RVs, bearing this promise: "The Bible guarantees it!"


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CNN) -- The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is a big, serious government agency with a big, serious job: protecting public health from threats ranging from hurricanes to bird flu.

So when the good doctors of Atlanta warned people this week about how to prepare for a zombie apocalypse, the world took notice.

"That's right, I said z-o-m-b-i-e a-p-o-c-a-l-y-p-s-e," Dr. Ali S. Khanwrote on the CDC website this week, adding casually that "Resident Evil" is his "personal favorite" zombie movie.

As it happens, Khan, one of the nation's top-ranking public health professionals (he's a rear admiral and an assistant surgeon general), doesn't actually believe the living dead are about to claw their way out of graves and start chewing on your brain.

But, he and his communications team recently noticed, what they'd want you to do if the world really did suddenly go "Night of the Living Dead" is pretty much the same thing they'd want you to do in case of a hurricane or a major pandemic.

From that realization to the decision actually to put up a blog post was a short step, Khan said Thursday.

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Khan floated the idea of what to do in a meteor strike on earth not long after becoming director of CDC's Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response eight months ago, he said, so his staff knew he was open to "novel and creative ideas to engage the public."

Then the CDC got a question about zombies during an online chat about radiation leaks related to the meltdown at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in March, and they saw traffic spike.

Khan and his communications team knew they'd found a way to get the public interested in disaster preparedness, he said.

"You have a 'Resident Evil' movie coming out, 'Shaun of the Dead,' 'World War Z.' It's a good metaphor for where you have complete disruption," he said.

So they posted the advice on Monday. Their website crashed on Wednesday.

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It's running sporadically as of this writing, so in case you can't get on, here's what CDC recommends:

Make an emergency plan. Stockpile food, water and medicine.

Have a utility knife, duct tape and battery-powered radio handy, along with some changes of clothes and bedding.

And keep some cleaning supplies handy, along with key personal documents like a driver's license and birth certificate.

The CDC also recommends having basic first aid supplies handy for a hurricane or a pandemic -- although, Khan admits on the CDC blog, "you're a goner if a zombie bites you."

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