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OBITUARIES Tom Fitzgerald, at 71; longtime Globe golf, hockey writing specialist By Neil Singelais Glabe Staff Thomas J. Fitzgerald, 71, of Scituate, a retired Globe sportswriter who covered the Boston Bruins and major golf tournaments for more than three decades, died Tuesday in South Shore Hospital, Weymouth, after a short illness. Fitzgerald had been ill with cancer recently. After becoming The Globe's golf writer in 1937, he covered his first Massachusetts Amateur Tournament. He knew all the great amateur and professional golfers of that era.

In 1940, Mr. Fitzgerald also began covering the Bruins, an assignment he was to treasure for 37 years. His favorite players during that span were Milt Schmidt and Terry O'Reilly. Mr. Fitzgerald was at Boston Garden when Bobby Orr, considered by many to be the greatest player in NHL history, broke in with the Bruins in 1966.

He was there when Orr left the team in 1976, having written about virtually every move Orr had made on the ice and off. "Tom Fitz was a good friend of mine." said Harry Sinden, the Bruins general manager. "He had a compassion for the problems that arose on the team. He loved hockey. Even after his retirement kept up with everything we did: There was tremendous respect for him all over the league." "John Ziegler, president of the National Hockey League, said yesterday: "All of us in the NHL, at both the league and club level, are very saddened to learn of Tom's passing.

His contributions, both as a journalist and chairman of the Hockey Hall of Fame Selection Committee, have been enormous. Most importantly, he was a man whose love for the game and those who played it especially warmed and enriched us Dick Haskell, executive director of the Massachusetts Golf said: "Tom did as much as any golf writer to promote the sport that we currently enjoy in Massachusetts. His golf column was a must reader. When word circulated at the recent New England PGA Sectional Championship at Nashawtue Country Club that Mr. Fitzgerald was being hospitalized, George Wemyss, the director, and 120 players participating in the tournament, sent him a get-well card bearing their signatures.

Mr. Fitzgerald often served as master of ceremonies for special events held by the Bruins at the Garden. At one, the team's farewell to Bobby Orr, Mr. Fitzgerald was praised by both fellow sports writers and the Bruins for keeping the program moving despite interruptions from a capacity crowd. While Mr.

Fitzgerald was coverIng the Bruins, he met and married the former Shirley Yuhas, secretary to Weston Adams, the team's, owner at the time. -Veterans of The Globe's sports department recall the words he ployed on deadline to silence leagues whose idle conversations he found distracting: "Is my typing TO Mr. disturbing Fitzgerald you?" enjoyed articulate a after- wide reputation as an a ness dinner dialects functions. were speaker at funny, His golf jokes never and told offen- bustsive. Mr.

Fitzgerald was versatile. trademark was eloquence in by Dr. I. David Fine, 67 Longtime Brighton dentist NATICK A funeral service will be held in Temple Isreal, Natick, at 1.p.m. today for Dr.

I. David Fine, 67, of Natick, a dentist in Brighton for many years. Dr. Fine died of cancer Tuesday at his home. grew up in Malden and graduated from high school there in 1933, studied at Boston College entered the Army in 1941, becoming a captain during World War Il.

He was discharged in 1946 after serving in Panama. He also had been in charge of prisone camps in Wisconsin and Michigan. He graduated from Northwesterin University Dental School in Chicago in 1949 and opened his practice on Commonwealth avenue, Brighton. retired two years ago. Dr.

Fine was a member of the Congregation of Kadimah of Toras in Brighton and Temple Israel, Natick, and served both as a vice president. He also sang in the choirs. He was a life member of the American Dental Society, He leaves his wife of 39 years, Esther (Abramson) Fine of Natick: two sons. Dr. Jeffrey Fine of Sherborn and Richard Fine of Natick: a Marjorie Fine of Natick: daughter, a brother, Henry Fine, and a sister, Sylvia Fine, both of Maiden, and a granddaughter.

counting turning points of a Bruins game or a key moment at a Masters or US Open golf tournament. His reportage flowed just as smoothly when he dealt with the Boston Marathon, boxing, wrestling and college football. Ernie Roberts, the retired Globe columnist who worked with Mr. Fitzgerald on the golf beat, notedthat although "he never played golf himself, he had a great rapport with all the players from Ted Bishop to Sam Snead, and he had their respect." Few knew 1 Mr. Fitzgerald longer than Clif Keane, the retired Globe sportswriter.

Keane said he found Mr. Fitzgerald to be witty and charming. They grew up together in Dorchester and often played hockey at Franklin Park. "He was such a funny guy, but he never wrote that way," said Keane. "He thought everything in a story should be dressed up and treated seriously Mr.

Fitzgerald's pet project was directing the annual Boston Globe Boys Golf Tournament in the 1960s and 1970s. He also wrote a Sunday golf column, edited the annual Globe Golf Preview as well as a popular instructional series called "Home Pro's Mr. Fitzgerald held a life honorary membership in the Profession-: al Hockey Writers Assn. He served as the association's first president in 1967 and was re-elected in 1968. Shortly after his retirement in 1977 from The Globe, he received the Lester Patrick Trophy for outstanding service to hockey in the United States.

Soon after his retirement from The Globe, Mr. Fitzgerald went on to become the first newspaperman ever named chairman of the selection committee for players being considered for membership in the Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto. He was a member of the original board of directors for the Golf Writers Assn. of America and its president in 1946. He also served as president of the Boston Golf Writers Assn.

and St. Francis De Sales Society for Boston Catholic journalists. Born in 1912 in Dorchester, Mr. Fitzgerald graduated from Boston Latin in 1929. A year later he dropped out of Boston University to become a copy boy at The Globe.

In the Army during World War Il, he earned four battle stars. He landed with the 6th Engineer Specialists Brigade at Omaha Beachand later became an information specialist, covering the campaign in Europe. Besides his wife, he leaves a daughter, Anne, and a son, Brian. A funeral Mass is scheduled for 10 a.m. Saturday in St.

Anthony's Church, Cohasset. Burial will be in Fairview Cemetery, Scituate. Fr. Robert Mooney Served Hub area churches; 57 Rev. Robert 1 H.

Mooney, 57, former associate pastor at St. Andrew's Parish, Forest Hills, died -Tuesday St. John of God HospiBrighton, after a long studied illness. Born in Boston, he at St. Mary's Seminary, Baltimore, and was ordained by the late Richard Cardinal Cushing on May 15, 1952, in St.

Theresa's Church, West Roxbury. He then worked in the Washington. D.C., diocese in Chillum, before returning to Boston in 1961 when he was appointed associate pastor at St. Helen's, Norwell, and later at St. Francis De Sales in Charlestown.

From 1966 to 1971, Fr. Mooney was a chaplain in the US Air Force. After his discharge, he served at St. Boniface Parish in Quincy before getting his assignment at St. Andrew's in Forest Hills.

A Mass of Christian Burial will be concelebrated in St. Andrew's Church at 11 a.m. Saturday. Principal celebrant will be Most Rev. Lawrence J.

Riley, auxiliary bishop of Boston. Fr. Mooney leaves his brother. Paul Mooney of West Roxbury. Rosalind Freed, 93 Active in affairs of the elderly Rosalind (Bramson) Freed, 93, of Brighton, who was active in affairs of the elderly for the past 10 years in Boston, died of cancer yesterday in Beth Israel Hospital.

Born in Boston, she was a graduate of the city's public schools. Mrs. Freed had worked in sales for the old Raymond's Department Store on Washington street in downtown Boston. She was a member of Temple Beth Am of Framingham. In Boston, Rachel Lieberman, commissioner of elder affairs, said Mrs.

Freed had been a "dynamic senior leader in Brighton. She was an officer with the Commonwealth Seniors for the past decade," Lieberman said, helping to arrange programs and trips for the group. Lieberman sent the family a letter expressing the appreciation of Mayor Kevin White and her department for Mrs. Freed's work. Mrs.

Freed was the widow of Paul A. Freed. A son, Roy Smith, died in 1969. She leaves another son, Herbert J. Frede of Framingham; four grandchildren and five greatgrandchildren.

A funeral service will be held Friday at 10 a.m. in Stanetsky's Chapel, Brookline. Paul A. Volante, 41 Concord CPA had own firm Paul A. Volante, 41, of Concord, a self-employed certified public accountant in Concord, died Tuesday in Waltham Hospital after a yearlong battle with cancer.

He had been associated with his brother, Joseph J. Volante of Watertown, in a joint accounting prac-. tice until four years ago when he began his own business. Born in Waltham, he was raised in Brighton and lived in Wayland before moving to Concord several years ago. He was a 1959 graduate of St.

Sebastian's Country Day School and a 1963 College School of He was a member of the Massachusetts Society of Certifed Public Accountants and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. He was a member of Belmont Beaver Masonic Lodge: the Aleppo Temple-Mystic Order of the Shrine; and the Boston University Friends of Hockey. He leaves his wife, Anne (Harkins) Volante of Concord: two daughters, Kim and Lisa Volante, both of Concord; his mother, LouIsa (DiDuco) Volante of Brighton; two brothers, Richard L. of Virginla and Joseph J. of Lexington; and two sisters, Elizabeth Johnson of Newton and Elena Volante of Waltham.

A funeral Mass will be said tomorrow at 10 a.m. in Our Lady of the Presentation Church, Brighton. George Kirwin, 63 English and drama instructor A memorial service will be conducted in the Unitarian First Church, West Newton, at 2:30 p.m. Sunday for George D. Kirwin, 63, of South Natick, college English and drama instructor, who died of heart failure Friday in Massachusetts General Hospital.

A graduate of Bates College, he had done graduate work in English at Boston University and was an English instructor at Suffolk University, at Lowell High School, and for 17 years at Mt. Ida College in Newton, where most recently he taught speech and drama as well as English. Mr. Kirwin lived in West Newton for 22 years and was active in local drama circles. He acted in and directed plays for Sudbury, Needham and Wellesley theater groups.

For the last nine years he played Santa Claus at Christmas pops performances by the Boston Pops Orchestra. He served in the US Air Corps during World War I1. He leaves a niece, Kathleen Kirwin of Bloomfield, and nephew, William Kirwin of Wycoff, N.J. Boylston man crushed by crane at storage yard in Framingham A 23-year-old Boylston man was road running through the storage crushed death beneath the yard, Patterson said. The storage wheels of a 15-ton crane yesterday yard is adjacent to the Perini headat the storage yard of Perini Corp.

quarters at 73 Mt. Waite av. in Framingham, company Tocci, who was not injured, was officials reported. at Framingham Union Hospital beThe victim, William F. ing treated for shock.

McGovern 3d, who had worked at Perini for four years, died after being appears that the cherrycrushed by the back wheels of a picker was backing up." said picker" crane. The driver terson. "It appeared the crane crane, identified as Robert backed over McGovern. But he Tocel. 62, of Milford, had been could have fallen under the wheels working with McGovern to clear in another manner steel frames from an area of the "We know that the backup yard, said Charles Patterson, vice alarm (on the crane) was operating president for corporate relations, properly because it was tested after The accident occurred on a dirt the Fund-raiser sentenced to year in jail Political fund-raiser Paul Porter received a one-year prison sentence yesterday for his role in a plot to purchase nearly two tons of marifrom undercover federal for $1 million.

juana agents the ly ing ton. and four ing last in Porter, 33, of Charlestown, is former president of a Boston energy consulting firm and is wideknown in Democratic fund-raiscircles in Boston and WashingHe was convicted by a jury last month Two other defendants, Walter Baker, 28, a Boston accountant, Frederick L. Hearn, 52, Stoneham received sentences years and three years, respectively. US District Judge John McNaught, who imposed the sentences, ordered them stayed pendthe outcome of an appeal. The defendants were arrested February after Hearn allegedly delivered $201,000 in cash to Drug Enforcement Administration agents as a down payment on marijuana.

The agents, posing drug smugglers, Chad brought truckload of marijuana from ginia to a Dorchester mall for the investigation. Assistant US Atty. E. Sydney Hanlon, who recommended three-year sentence for Porter, the evidence indicated he was person in the case with "connections to the financiers." In a personal plea to the judge, Porter said his ultimate goal to elected to public office was shattered, but he insisted his in the case was not as great as prosecution claimed. He asked judge to "give me one last shot." A psychiatrist, Bernard Yudowitz of Brookline, told judge that Porter has been plagued throughout his life by a deep-seated depression resulting from death of his father and grandparents in a flood when he was 5 old.

Since 1978 Porter has money for many of the Democratic officeholders, including US Sen. Paul E. Tsongas, US Barney Frank, former governor ward J. King, Lt. Gov.

John and Suffolk County Sheriff J. Kearney. He also organized a major raiser in Boston for President my Carter's unsuccessful 1980 election campaign. At the time his arrest last February, was organizing a fund-raising breakfast for presidential date John Glenn. The psychiatrist said many Porter's activities were a means avoiding "the sad and empty Ing he carries around within Another defendant in the former lawyer Larry J.

41, of Brookline will be later. WILLIAM F. THE BOSTON GLOBE THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1983 67 TOP JOB Sam Davis of Waltham scrapes old paint from structure atop the State House's golden dome in preparation for repainting. UPI PHOTO be now role the the the the years raised state's Rep. EdKerry Dennis fundJim- reof Porter candi- of of case, Reservitz, sentenced Merrimack boat crash claims second victim NEWBURYPORT An Oct.

3 collision between two motorboats on the Merrimack River claimed its second victim yesterday morning. Annette Bowman, 16, of Newburyport, died in Lawrence General Hospital at 11 a.m., the result of a skull fracture and brain injuries suffered in the accident. The boats were operated by two brothers from Newburyport, Christopher and Daniel Kelliher, who were charged last week with varlous motorboat safety and other violations. The body of the first accident victim, George Boone, 26, of Diego, was found last Tuesday by a local fisherman. A pretrial conference for the brothers, who were arraigned last Friday in connection with the accident, has been set for Nov.

18 in Newburyport District Court. Newburyport Police said the Kellihers were operating separate motorboats that collided about 2 p.m. on Oct. 3, resulting in injuries to the boats' occupants and the disappearance of Boone, one of several occupants who were thrown overboard. Essex County Assistant Dist.

Atty. Maurice G. McGuire, saideach of the brothers was charged with operating a motorboat to endanger. In addition, McGuire said, Christopher Kelliher was charged with operating an unregistered motorboat, having no certificate of registration for the boat, displaying an inappropriate license plate on the boat, permitting passsengers on the boat without adequate life-saving devices and without a fire extinguisher and failing to signal prior to the collision. Daniel Kelliher was also charged with permitting passengers on the boat without adequate lifesaving devices, and with two counts each of furnishing alcohol to minors and contributing to the delinquency of a minor.

McGuire, who said that a total of approximately 90 bottles and beer cans were found aboard the boats by authorities, added that further investigation into Bowman's death may produce additional charges. The Kellihers were released last after each posted $1000 cash bail. Medford pianist is murder victim The badly beaten body of a 30- year-old Medford woman who was a concert pianist, according to authorities, was found yesterday morning on the grounds of the Charles River Park apartment complex in Boston's West End. Police Identified the woman as Mary Louise Sellon of 347 Riverside Medford. She was pronounced dead at 7:15 a.m.

by Medical ExamIner Leonard Atkins, who later performed an autopsy. The cause of death was being withheld, said Thomas Santry, spokesman for the Boston Police Department. "But it is being treated as a homicide." he added. Sellon's body was discovered behind 8 Whittier Place when a restdent of that high-rise building went out to walk her dog. "I went out of the door and realized that somebody was there, without any clothes on from the waist said the woman, who asked not to be named.

"The superintendent of the building was riding by. I told him what I found, and I left," she said. Joseph Sousa, a security officer, said yesterday he responded to the call of a "body found." "I figured it would be a wino or something." said Sousa. He said the left side of the woman's head had been beaten badly. It appeared that she had been sexually assaulted, he said.

he Swimming articles were found near the body, Sousa said, leading authorities to believe that the vietin had been at the complex's Pool and Cabana Club. He added that nonresidents must sign a sheet at the club, but said the night attendant told him that no nonresident name appeared on the ledger that could be connected to the slain woman. Residents of the complex, where monthly rents range from $500 to $1200. talked among themselves about the discovery of the body but were reluctant to talk to reporters. One resident said the area where the woman was found is poorly lighted and had been the scene last summer of a mugging and a purse-snatching.

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