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The Boston, Globe Obituaries FRIDAY, OCTOBER 27, 2006 Charlotte Cleveland; helped -neighbors, women across globe Edward Kenney, 85; directed Red Sox minor leagues E8 'TO FILE1994 Charlotte Cleveland, with a group of Bosnian women she had helped. Mrs. Cleveland was seated in center, in a striped shirt. Mr. Kenney said, "he wasn't a good runner or a good hitter.

And he wasn't that strong a thrower. But he really wanted to become a ballplayer, and he did." Nicknamed the Rooster, Burleson went on to become the heart of the Sox teams in the 1970s. A native of Medford, Mr. Kenney grew up in Winchester and spent much of his youth in the shadows of Fenway Park, where his father, Thomas, worked as a groundskeeper and handyman. "From the time I was 13, 1 worked out with the second infield unit when the Red Sox took to the practice field," he said.

After graduating from Boston College, Mr. Kenney joined the Sox organization as a pitcher but a sore arm ended his pro playing career almost as soon as it began. With his ties to the organization, Mr. Kenney stuck with the club as a ticket seller at Fenway Park. When Joe Cronin took over as Sox general manager in 1948, he asked Mr.

Kenney to help run baseball clinics and to serve as advance scout. He became assistant farm director the following year. After retiring as head of the minor league system, Mr. Kenney returned as vice president of baseball development. He retired from that position in 1991.

A resident of Braintree, Mr. Kenney leaves his wife, Anna (Vaughan); three daughters, Anne Marie Kelley of Needham, Kath-ryn of Braintree, and Helen McGann of Longmeadow; a son, Edward of Maryland, who worked in baseball operations for the Red Sox and Baltimore Orioles; and seven grandchildren. A funeral Mass will be said at 10 a.m. tomorrow at St. Claire Church in Braintree.

Edward F. Kenney who as director of the Red Sox minor league system had a key role in the development of such Sox icons as Fred Lynn, Jim Rice, Carlton Fisk, Wade Boggs, and Roger Clemens, died Wednesday of complications from diabetes. He was 85. In all, Mr. Kenney spent 41 years with the Sox.

Each of his career milestones came during halcyon periods of Sox history: He joined the organization as a minor league pitcher during the team's run to the World Series in 1946; was named director of the farm system before the 1967 season, when the Sox returned to the Series; and retired as farm director as the team took on the. New York Mets in the 1986 World Series. Eddie Kenney loved his young players. The feeling, writes Nick Cafardo, was mutual. D7.

Many of the cornerstones of that 1986 team came through the farm system. Mr. Kenney, however, declined to take any credit. "I just happened to be here and we had some tremendous scouts," he told The Boston Globe in a story about his retirement. For Mr.

Kenney, who watched as Ted Williams developed into the game's premier hitter and who helped oversee the development of Carl Yastrzemski and Jim Lon-borg, the greatest satisfaction was seeing a young farmhand make the most of his talents. Of all the players who came through the Sox system, Mr. Kenney singled out shortstop Rick Burleson as the epitome of such grit and determination. "When Rick first came to us," By Gloria Negri GLOBE STAFF In 1994, when the war in the I former Yugoslavia was victimizing thousands in Bosnia and Herzego- vina, Charlotte Cleveland felt I moved to do something to help Bosnian women in the refugee 'camps of Croatia. "We had been to a meeting of the Boston chapter of the Wom-en's Commission for Refugee Women and Children where the speaker had just returned from the Balkans," said Babbie Camer-! on of Wilton, Maine, and formerly of Natick.

"One of the speakers' 'stories was about a 13-year-old Bosnian girl in a "rape On the way out, Char said to me, We need some kind of humanitarian outreach. I'll do Their answer came the next day from the International Rescue Committee: a request for knitting needles and two tons of yarn for Bosnian women suffering from post-traumatic stress syndrome in 'the camps. That same day, Mrs. Cleveland I and Cameron formed a grass-roots knitting project that spread across the country and resulted in tons of Hlonated wool and knitting needles rbeing shipped to Croatia. In the fall of 1994, Mrs.

Cleve- land and Cameron went to Bosnia for two weeks to meet with the knitters, who had generated a sense of self-esteem along with an income stream by selling their 'sweaters, scarves, gloves, and socks. The next year, when Mrs. Cleveland and Cameron were honored at the United Nations by the Women's Commission for Refugee Women and Children, Mrs. Cleveland described her visit to the refugee camps as "a powerful experience." "The sadness, and sense of their loss, was present," she said in her talk, "but I also knew in the group, the women felt safe. As they knit, they laugh and cry.

They are reconnecting with others. They are building a new community." The project lasted three years. Mrs. Cleveland, an outspoken Democrat who turned her privileged background into a springboard for social and political activism, died of pancreatic cancer Oct. 16 at Fox Hill Village in West-wood.

She was 79. Before moving to Westwood three years ago, she lived in Cambridge. "Charlotte was always politically active," her sister, Margaret C. Ives of Newton, said yesterday. "She used to campaign for Democratic candidates all over." Mrs.

Cleveland had a positive outlook on life, said her son, John of Tarn worth, N.H, in his eulogy at her service on Oct. 21. "She infected us all with this affirmation of life. She surrounded us with it; she gave us confidence through it; and we left each visit with her carrying a small fragment of this precious energy," he said. "There were many said her daughter, Sarah of Portland, Ore.

"One of them was, 'Every day is a new Charlotte Bartow (Crocker) Cleveland was born in Boston, one of six children, to the Rev. John Crocker, an Episcopal minister, and Mary (Hallowell) Crocker. Her early years were spent in Princeton, N.J., while her father was chaplain at Princeton University. The family moved back to Massachusetts when Crocker became headmaster of Groton School. In 1945, Mrs.

Cleveland graduated from Milton Academy, where she would later reside for about 30 years as a faculty wife. She graduated from Vassar College in 1948 and two years later married Thomas G. Cleveland a grandson of President Graver Cleveland. In 1954, the couple moved to Alaska, where Cleveland was an Episcopal missionary for nine years. They lived in a small village named Holikachuk and then in a larger one, Tanana, on the Yukon River, with a population of 500.

Mrs. Cleveland started the first kindergarten there, according to her daughter. "They had children in diapers, and she lived in small Indian villages without running water or electricity" said her daughter. "It was so cold that when she hung the children's diapers out to dry, they froze." The Clevelands moved to Milton in 1965 when he took a job teaching religion at Milton Academy. During the 32 years he taught there, the couple were surrogate parents to 52 students who lived in their home and were treated to Mrs.

Cleveland's home-cooked meals and loving care. For seven years, she and Natalie Albers owned The Irish Gannett, a shop that sold Irish imports. They also worked on political campaigns together. "Char's favorite word was probably Albers said. "She never turned down a request for help." Mrs.

Cleveland was a Milton Town Meeting member, a member of the League of Women Voters, and one of 10 women who challenged Milton's Democratic Town Committee in 1976 to put more women on its slate. "We had to go before the Democratic State Committee," recalled Shirlie Goldman, now of Canton, "and the 10 of us got elected for a four-year term." After Mrs. Cleveland and her husband divorced in 1989, she moved to Cambridge. In 1994, she became one of the founding members of the Friends of the Longfellow House on Brattle Street in Cambridge. "Charlotte was instrumental in getting a whole slew of people to volunteer their services for our Leonid Hambro, 86, pianist, sideMck to Victor Borge physics research, policy A I If SUZANNE KREITERGLOBE STAFFFILE 2000 Mrs.

Cleveland, leafing through an album of memories from volunteering. summer music and poetry programs on the lawn," said James Shea, the house director. "She was loved by many." Her work in Croatia has not been forgotten, as indicated by e-mails from there reacting to her death. Nor has her dedication to Democratic politics. Her daughter included a line in her death notice that she and others said would have pleased Mrs.

Cleveland very much: "Support your local Democratic candidate." Besides her son, daughter, sister, and former husband, Mrs. Cleveland leaves another son, Thomas G. of Branford, another daughter, Ellen D. Jessop, of St. Charles, four granddaughters and four grandsons; three stepgrandchildren, and four step-greatgrandchildren.

partment and NASA and guided US participation in the Large Had-ron Collider of the European Organization for Nuclear Research. When the high-energy accelerator begins operating next year in Switzerland, it will be the world's largest scientific instrument. "I think of the accelerators we build as analogous to the cathedrals of the medieval world," Mr. Rosen once said. A London native and Oxford university graduate, Simon Peter Rosen came to the United States to do research at Washington University in St.

Louis. He was a professor at Purdue University in West Lafayette, from 1962 to 1984. He became a naturalized US citizen in 1972. years," Brown said. "His work has become more appreciated." Dr.

Sanders was considered an expert in the field of synoptic meteorology, the study and forecasting of large weather systems such as cyclones. "He invented the expression Bluestein said. "Bomb cyclones" occur when the barometric pressure drops precipitously in a 24-hour period in a low-pressure system that is developing explosively, often resulting in northeasters. More popularly, bomb cyclones gained media currency through events such as the "perfect storm" of 1991. Frederick Sanders grew up in Bloomfield, where his parents had such firm ideas about his future that they named him after an ancestor who in 1875 opened the first of what would become a chain of ice cream and candy shops in Detroit.

"He was supposed to take over the family business, that's why he was called Fred Sanders," said his daughter, Christopher Sanders of Arlington. "It didn't suit him terribly well." Instead, he went to Amherst College to study mathematics, economics, and music. During World War II, the Army Air Corps sent him to MIT to study meteorology and then stationed him in Greenland, where he forecast weather ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK Leonid Hambro, a concert pianist with the ability to commit to memory a huge repertoire and who served as Victor Borge's comedic sidekick during a decade-old collaboration, died Monday at his Manhattan home. He was 86. Mr.

Hambro died from complications from a fall, his wife, Barbara, said yesterday. Mr. Hambro's ability to memorize complicated and numerous pieces was used in impressive ways, most notably during a 1952 Town Hall performance in which he was asked to fill in for another pianist. He learned the complicated piece in just 24 hours, leading the conductor to tell the audience that they had just witnessed a "kind of miracle." A Chicago native, Mr. Hambro amassed a repertoire of more than 200 compositions during his career, from simple etudes to concer-ti.

In a tour de force concert he 73; guided US budget of $1 billion. He designed many of the Energy Department's long-term plans, supervised the development of major laboratories, and oversaw a number of key scientific discoveries. Under his leadership, astro-. physicists at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California discovered that a mysterious "dark energy," whose properties are still largely unknown, accounts for 70 percent of the energy in the universe. Other scientists working for him made major findings on the characteristics of subatomic particles called neutrinos.

In addition to his mastery of research, Mr. Rosen also had a gift for explaining the importance of physics, and the joy of scientific in S. Peter Rosen, ByMattSchudel WASHINGTON POST WASHINGTON S. Peter Rosen, a theoretical physicist who, as a senior science adviser at the US Department of Energy, had an influential role in guiding physics research and science policy in the United States, died Oct. 13 of pancreatic cancer at his home in He was 73.

For the past nine years, Mr. Rosen was a high-ranking administrator in the Energy Department's Office of Science, the nation's largest supporter of basic research in the physical sciences. As associate director of the High Energy and Nuclear Physics division in the Office of Science from 1997 to 2003, Mr. Rosen managed an annual in brief Frederick Sanders; taught meteorology at MIT; at 83 called "Command Performance," he invited the audience to select from over a hundred pieces and he would then play their top requests, on the spot, from memory. But it was his 10-year partnership with Borge, beginning in 1961, that earned him the most visibility.

Borge's piano comedy act had Mr. Hambro playing the straight guy. One routine had the two men performing Liszt's "Hungarian Rhapsody" No. 2 on the same keyboard, and then falling off the piano bench. The Times called Mr.

Hambro "the laughin-gest straight man you ever saw." Mr. Hambro made more than 100 recordings and toured worldwide, appearing as a soloist with many orchestras including those in Boston, Chicago, and London. Bela Bartok's son selected Mr. Hambro to record all of his father's piano music, including the premiere recording of the First Piano Concerto with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. FREDERICK SANDERS passion dating to his youth growing up in Michigan.

In a 39-foot sailboat, he participated in the annual race from Newport, R.I., to Bermuda and once cruised to Guatemala. He often would invite students to sail and, inevitably, discuss the weather. "Even though extremely rigorous academically, he was extremely informal," Bluestein said. "He hung out with us, and he let us hang out with him." In addition to his wife and daughter, Dr. Sanders leaves two sons, John of Shrewsbury and Duncan Sanders-Fleming of Cambridge; a brother, Jack of South-field, a sister, Nancy Chick-ering of West Bloomfield, and five grandchildren.

A funeral service will be held at 1 p.m. Sunday in Old North Church in Marblehead. quiry, to lawmakers and the public. Last year, during the World Year of Physics, he published several articles about the place of physics in the modern world and delivered a lecture called "Einstein Made Easy." He was instrumental in securing Energy Department support for two PBS "Nova" science programs: "The Elegant Universe" (2003) and "Einstein's Big Idea" (2005). Mr.

Rosen believed pure scientific research was valuable for its own sake and its long-term benefits were impossible to predict He also believed people in other walks of life could learn from the cooperative spirit that unites scientists. He made cooperative arrangements between the Energy De cigars. He used data from the contests as part of his research showing that the consensus of divergent predictions was statistically more accurate than the work of any one forecaster. Dr. Sanders, a meteorology professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for 30 years, died in his Marblehead home on Oct.

6 of complications from an infection he contracted while working as a consultant in Arizona. He was 83 and had lived in Marble-head since 1949. "There are few people in the history of the field who have trained and mentored as many outstanding meteorologists as Fred," said Steven Mullen, head of the meteorology department at the University of Arizona in Tucson. "His legacy in terms of his offspring is just legendary." "He's definitely one of the giants in our field and one of the pioneers," Bluestein said. "He was not only a brilliant scientist, but a great mentor.

We look upon him as somewhat of a father of all these graduate students, and these graduate students of graduate students." Dr. Sanders was a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and of the American Meteorological Society, which held a colloquium in his honor two years ago. "He's been somewhat underrated until recent By Bryan Marquard GLOBE STAFF Sixteen floors above the MIT campus, the meteorology students of Fred Sanders would gather in a hallway of the Green Building to make final calculations. They were competing with one another, and with Dr. Sanders, to see who could most accurately predict the next few days of weather at Logan International Airport.

"There would be some psychological drama when he would come down the hall saying, "You don't suppose that He would walk by and dive-bomb us," said Howard Bluestein, now a meteorology professor at the University of Oklahoma. "You would see 15 students with their pencils and erasers trying to change their forecasts." For the students, there was more at stake than a grade or a delayed flight. Dr. Sanders gave a cigar to each student whose forecast was more accurate than the professor's. "That didn't happen very often," said John M.

Brown, another former student who now is a meteorologist, in Boulder, for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. "I think I still have one of those cigars decaying somewhere in my house." And for Dr. Sanders, there was more on the line than the cost of Robert Ragusa Robert Ragusa, 52, of Plym-'outh, a jazz singer and pianist who played around Cape Cod, died Friday at Brigham and Women's Hospital from complications of leukemia. Born in Boston, he was a 1972 graduate of Catholic Memorial High School. Shortly after graduating, he moved to Hyannis.

Mr. Ragusa began taking private piano lessons in elementary school, according to his girlfriend, Lynn Stewart. During his career, he played jazz piano at several venues on the Cape, including the Black Cat in Hyannis and the Compass Rose Summer Shack in Dennis. In 1999 he played at the New England Jazz Festival at Mashpee Commons. In 2004, he moved to West Palm Beach, where he played piano on cruise ships touring the Caribbean.

He moved to Plymouth in 2005. He leaves his brother, Jack, of Milbridge, Maine. A funeral Mass ill be said at 1 1 a.m. tomorrow at St. Patrick Church in Wareham.

A private burial will follow. BATISTA, Marta Fernandez In West Palm Beach, Oct. 2, at 82. The widow of former Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista, Mrs. Batista earned a reputation as a lover of the arts and supporter of the needy.

1 for pilots. After the war he married Nancy Brown, whom he had met while home in Michigan on leave, and moved to New York City to become a weather forecaster at La Guardia airport. From there he returned to MIT, where he received a doctorate in 1954 and joined the meteorology department. "He was an incredibly warm individual very kind, very patient," Mullen said. "I learned a lot from him as a professor myself in how one can deal with situations in life, deal with students, deal with peers in a much more professional manner.

He always said, "No matter what you do, always take the high Dr. Sanders also did seminal work in the areas of atmospheric fronts, those on the ground and in the jet stream, Mullen said, and developed ways to test the accuracy and skill of forecasting systems drawing in part from the data gathered in classroom contests. "Unlike many faculty members, he was not aloof from the students," Brown said. "He was out there mixing it up with them. He knew how to ask a question of his students to make them think." A pianist who had composed some pieces as a young man, Dr.

Sanders sang with MIT's Choral Society and with the choir of Old North Church in Marblehead. He also was an avid sailor, a 1.