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00 BIO THE COURIER-JOURNAL WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 12, 2001 G.W. Stoll, former board chairman of Belle of Louisville, dies at 85 llllpililL 1 DIFFERENT OWE SPIR I graduated from Carlton College in Minnesota, he spent a week cruising the Ohio River from Louisville to Manchester, Ohio, carrying a sandwich board, serving as watchman, playing the calliope and steering all for no pay. Laterhehelped preserve two Ohio River steamboats: the Delta Queen and -A: iV. C.W.

Stoll envisioned the transformation of the Avalon into the Belle of Louisville. By PAULA BURBA The Courier-Journal C.W. Stoll, who envisioned the transformation of the riverboat Ava-lon into the Belle of Louisville and renovated a mansion overlooking the Ohio River so he could keep an eye on the water, died Monday at Norton Suburban Hospital of heart failure. He was 85. "Once you're infected with that strange indefinable malady, river fever, you're never quite normal again.

You've got it, and there's nothing can be done about it," he once told members of the Filson Club. Charles William Stoll had been in love with boats and rivers since childhood. He was a correspondent for the St. Louis-based Waterways Journal when he was 15. From the time he was 6 years old, Stoll had jobs in the office of his grandfather's oil company.

As a teen, he would go down to the oil docks and talk with the boat crews, then send the news to the journal. During summers in the mid-1980s, Stoll worked as a clerk on the old Gordon C. Greene packet boat, owned by the Greene Line. When he with the Delta Queen in 1963. He later served on the Metropolitan Parks and Recreation Board and was a chairman of the board of the Belle of Louisville.

Stoll held several executive positions in the family's oil business. His grandfather, Charles Christian Stoll, founded the Stoll Oil Refining which later became Sinclair Refining Co. C.W. Stoll retired as a lubrication engineer in 1971 when it was a division of the Atlantic-Richfield Co. Stoll also served as president of the Louisville Oil Men's Club and chairman of the Kentucky Petroleum Council during his career, In 1952 he bought the historic Rock Hill mansion off Mockingbird Valley Road in eastern Jefferson County.

Stoll and his first wife, Mari-jane Palmer, moved into three rooms of the house that year and renovated it one room at a time. A few years after she died, he married the former Lucy Miller, who yesterday described how her husband would watch the river from an upstairs window of Rock Hill after he became ill a few years ago. The Belle of Louisville would always blow the whistle for him as it passed. The steamboat's flag flew at half mast yesterday in memory of him. Obituary information, Page B9.

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Late in life, Holberton was credited for her efforts to make the language and equipment of programming user-friendly. After World War II, she created an instruction code, called C-10, that allowed for control of the first general-purpose computer by keyboarded commands rather than by dials and switches. Holberton came up with language using mnemonic characters that appealed to logic, such as for add and for bring. She designed control panels that put the numeric keypad next to the keyboard and persuaded engineers to replace the UNI-VAC's black exterior with the gray-beige tone that came to be the universal color of computers. When men were diverted to wartime service, the Army recruited Holberton and about 80 other female mathematicians to compute ballistics trajectories by hand and with desktop calculators at the University of Pennsylvania.

The women worked on equations that took more than 30 hours to solve. The Army sponsored a top-secret project to create an electronic digital computer that would speed up the calculations. The Army chose six women, including Holberton, to program the computer. By the completion of the project in 1946, work that once took 30 hours to compute instead took 15 seconds. While working at the Navy's David Taylor Model Basin and the National Bureau of Standards, she served with MA) Even when the weatSior is frig mm.

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