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Arthur Ironfield of Berkley, Bristol County, MA was born on December 20, 1925, and died at age 81 years old on May 28, 2007.
If I have the right Arthur Ironfield, I worked with him from 1973 to 1976 at my first programming job at Providence Washington Insurance Co. in Providence, Rhode Island. I was a trainee at the time and Arthur was. a seasoned veteran and gave me many useful tips and ideas. In those days, programs were typed on punched cards and fed to the IBM 360 computer by putting the cards in a hopper and it would read them in one card at a time.
We went to South Carolina to Siebels Bruce Insurance co. to review a new computer system there and it was a new experience for me as I had never traveled or flown before. On the way back we all returned to Providence but, since it was winter, Arthur decided to go to Florida and stay a few days there before heading back. I think he was in the Navy at one point, am not sure. But he was a good practical programer who taught me a lot, along with our boss Bill Gardner and Programming manager Bill Valcarenghi, a former chemist who had changed careers . They were all smart people and ideal co-workers in that long lost era. On. a few occasions, I had to go to the old IBM EAM machine to correlate or sort some cards and "Emma", that is how we knew her, was the only one who could get that machine to work. She programmed the "boards" by movig a nest of wires from one point to the next, with each board being hard wired programed to do a specific task. She must have had 30 or 40 of these boards and this technology must have gone back to the 1950's or earlier. I will never forget the rhythmic "clack clacking" of the EAM (Electronic Accounting Machine, as they were called then) as it processed the punched cards that were put in its hopper, then they would come shooting out into one of several bins on the side of the machine.
Working with Arthur, as we finished each part of a Cobol program to automate what the girls in the other rooms did by hand, suddenly a whole bunch of empty desks would appear as our program replaced a bunch of workers. I remember wondering, perhaps with some foresight, what would happen when the machines replaced us !! I never saw Arthur again after leaving that job in 1976 but there are a lot of fond memories, like all of us running to window at graduation time to watch the procession of Brown graduates march down the hill to the old church at the foot of the hill. Hope I have the right Arthur Ironfield, if not, apologies.
Arthur Ironfield
Arthur Ironfield
Walter B. Suesman attained a rating of Master of Chess after participating in several U.S. Open tournaments in the late 1930's and into the 1940's. He was often at the Providence Chess Club in the 2d floor of an old building on Aborn St. in Providence, long since demolished, and he also ran a Chess column with news, games and Chess problems in the Wednesday Providence Journal Evening Bulletin for over 40 years.
He played in club matches and was an inspiration to the younger players like myself in the early 1960's when I was in high school. Later on I would run into him during the lunch hours catching some sun near the Turk's Head building in downtown Providence in the early 1970's where he had a day job doing accounting work and I was working over at the nearby Providence Washington Insurance company as a computer programmer.
He was a friend of Al Martin, another master of chess who had also played in U.S. Open tournaments. It was Martin who payed the rent that allowed the chess club to exist. On a hot summer night in the mid 1960's we would be playing chess with the windows open for air, fans going, and music from the wild Pirate's Den bar across the street would come in. A newsletter written by a Mr. Dwyer, the Providence Chess Club bulletin, produced monthly, has descriptions of the environment, the people and tournaments if you can find a copy. Other top players at the club were Henry Sonnenschein, Herman Rose, G.M. Irwin, William Parberry, Gary L. John, and Warren Chamandy and Robert Barry.
Walter Suesman
Walter Suesman
Walter B. Suesman attained a rating of Master of Chess after participating in several U.S. Open tournaments in the late 1930's and into the 1940's. He was often at the Providence Chess Club in the 2d floor of an old building on Aborn St. in Providence, long since demolished, and he also ran a Chess column with news, games and Chess problems in the Wednesday Providence Journal Evening Bulletin for over 40 years.
He played in club matches and was an inspiration to the younger players like myself in the early 1960's when I was in high school. Later on I would run into him during the lunch hours catching some sun near the Turk's Head building in downtown Providence in the early 1970's where he had a day job doing accounting work and I was working over at the nearby Providence Washington Insurance company as a computer programmer.
He was a friend of Al Martin, another master of chess who had also played in U.S. Open tournaments. It was Martin who payed the rent that allowed the chess club to exist. On a hot summer night in the mid 1960's we would be playing chess with the windows open for air, fans going, and music from the wild Pirate's Den bar across the street would come in. A newsletter written by a Mr. Dwyer, the Providence Chess Club bulletin, produced monthly, has descriptions of the environment, the people and tournaments if you can find a copy. Other top players at the club were Henry Sonnenschein, Herman Rose, G.M. Irwin, William Parberry, Gary L. John, and Warren Chamandy and Robert Barry.
Walter Suesman
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Maria "Helen" E (Lamantia) Pannozzi
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Raymond M Durfee of Cranston, Providence County, RI was born on April 25, 1922, and died at age 88 years old on February 2, 2011.
Anthony H Hull of Sherborn, Middlesex County, MA was born on October 10, 1923, and died at age 70 years old on July 1, 1994.
Anna Lamantia
A photo of Anna Lamantia taken in Providence, Rhode Island, early 1920's
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Louis Bachman of Providence, Providence County, RI was born on August 23, 1888, and died at age 97 years old in February 1986.
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Jane Kennett was born at Portsmouth, England. Jane's partner was George H. W. Kennett, and they had a child Mabel O'Neill Kennett. Jane's partner was George H. W. Kennett, and they had children Sarah J. Kennett, George H. Kennett, Afred Kennett, and Florence Kennett. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Jane Kennett.
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