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OCTOBER 30, 2011 Boston Sunday Globe Bll Obituaries Pennie Logemann, at 93; Concord naturalist known for her garden Trimi By Gloria Negri GLOBE STAFF When Pennie Logemann and her husband, Hugo, moved to the Conantum community of Concord in 1952, there was on their property an old-fashioned peat bog, seemingly not good for growing flowers. Mrs. Logemann was not deterred by a swamp that harkened back to when Henry David Thoreau was writing in town in the 1800s. The swamp "had plants in it that were very rare," said Sue Hay, a former Concord neighbor who now lives in Bedford. "Pennie took extension courses at Radcliffe College in landscaping and designed the whole muddy swamp with wildflowers, like rhodora and swamp azalea.

She was one of those very talented ladies, a perfectionist in everything she did. We were all in awe of her." Mrs. Logemann, a landscape designer whose name is paired with Thoreau's in a Boston University project researching the effect of climate change on the growing season of plants, died Oct. 8 in the Carleton-Willard Village, a retirement community in Bedford, of complications after a stroke. She was 93 and had moved from Concord to Carleton-Willard in the mid-1990s.

In 1974, according to the Concord Journal, about 130 members of a landscape design critics council visited the Logemanns' woodland swamp garden, "the only private garden on their tour. Mrs. Logemann has treated the natural swamp as a gardening asset by incorporating it into her overall gardening plan. A hillside covered with pines and oaks slopes down to the swamp where blueberries and azaleas grow profusely. Among the many wildflowers and shrubs in bloom was the native swamp rhoda which Thoreau wrote about." Mrs.

Logemann received a Bronze Medal from the Massachusetts Horticultural Society for design of her Concord garden for "excellent development of a difficult terrain, including a bog and heavily shaded woodland area." In her gardening life, Mrs. Logemann lived by a Berton Braley poem displayed on her refrigerator: There should be no monotony In studying your botany; It helps to train And spur the brain Unless you haven't got any. "My mother was a petite and feisty woman with a heart of gold, a quick, light sense of humor and insatiable curiosity," said her daughter, Lois Anne Whitney of Concord. "People respected her. She inspired them." Jean Rapp of Pittsford, N.Y., was among them.

"Pennie accomplished so much and was an inspiration to all who shared her love of nature," Rapp said. "Always learning, she wanted to give to others what she found so exciting." From 1963 to 1993, Whitney said, her mother kept "meticu- Unable to speak English when she started school in a two-room schoolhouse, she worked with a teacher who had volunteered to stay after school and help her. A quick learner, Mrs. Logemann graduated as the salutato-rian of her class at Murdock High School in Winchendon. After enrolling as a pre-med student at the University of New Hampshire, she graduated in 1939 with a bachelor's degree and became a medical technologist at a laboratory in Springfield.

In 1943, she married Hugo Logemann an engineer who helped develop radar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology radiation laboratory during World War II. He died in 2008. In 1953, Mrs. Logemann became a founding member of the Conantum Garden Club, and three years later she joined the New England Wild Flower Society in Framingham, becoming one of its directors. Mrs.

Logemann wrote a nature trail guide for the Wild Flower Society, the society's Garden in the Woods in Framingham, and volunteered as a Girl Scout leader. In a 1970 newsletter, she wrote about the glories of her Concord swamp in winter and summer. too, can join Thoreau in admiring winter buds 'the great yellow-red forward looking buds of azalea, the plum red ones of the blueberry' and the plum red buds of swamp maples." Pennie Logemann, a landscape designer, made terrariums, little gardens in transparent containers. lous daily notes" of how critical climate changes were affecting the blooming of her flowers and plants. So did Thoreau and other naturalists.

The historical data combined with Mrs. Logemann's notes are helping biologists. Richard B. Primack, a Boston University biology professor who is researching the effects of climate change on plants, said Mrs. Logemann allowed him to make copies of her findings.

"Pennie was really part of the tradition that goes all the way back to Thoreau," he said. "Con Jimmy Savile, flamboyant British radio personality, 84 Rev. Dean Brackley; took on risky duties in El Salvador The Conantum Garden Club honored Mrs. Logemann in 1959 and 1960. The next year, her daughter said, she discovered a whorled pogonia, a rare orchid, near the swamp in the backyard of Conantum neighbors.

"Pennie was involved in so many things and was obsessed with education," said Mary Mc-Clintock, a Concord friend of 60 years. "She wanted to know everything, no matter what field she was working on." At the end of the 1960s, she took courses in landscape and environmental design at Radcliffe College, which prepared her to take on private clients and to teach adult education courses in landscape design in Acton, Concord, at the Wild Flower Society, and at the Arnold Arboretum. When the Logemanns left Concord and her beloved garden to move to Carleton-Willard Village, she saw the potential for a garden in the stone wall bordering their living quarters. It soon was covered with flowers no one believed would have thrived. In addition to her daughter, Mrs.

Logemann leaves a grandson and a granddaughter. A memorial service will be held at 10:30 a.m. Nov. 23 in Carleton-Willard Village in Bedford. Burial will be in Hillside Cemetery in Rindge, N.H.

Gloria Negri can be reached at gnegriglobe.com. beds in the university dorm, ordered them to lie on the ground outside, shot them in the head and then killed the women as potential witnesses. Nine soldiers were charged, but only two were convicted in connection with the executions; both were released in a general amnesty in 1993. When Rev. Brackley told friends he was asking the Jesuit order to send him as a replacement, Connolly remembers flinching.

"We didn't exactly ask him not to go," he said. "We just said, 'Gee, Dean, you could do an awful lot of good right here. Why not "Father Brackley said 'he felt called to continue the work' of those slain," Connolly said, though he told a New York News-day columnist in 1990 that in some ways he was torn: "My body began to factor it in before my head I found my knees shaking, without really knowing why." He was joined by five other Jesuit priest volunteers at the campus residence in El Salvador, including one other American, the Rev. Charles J. Beirne, an academic administrator who later became president of LeMoyne College in Syracuse.

Beirne died last year. Joseph Dean Brackley Jr. was born in Wynantskill, in upstate New York, the oldest of four children of J. Dean and Inez Brack-ley. He was ordained in 1976.

Rev. Brackley wrote frequently for the Jesuit weekly magazine America and wrote two books about Catholic theology and priestly discernment while teaching at the university in San Salvador and ministering to a rural parish about 50 miles away. In the months immediately after the massacre, government soldiers were frequently stationed at the campus, ostensibly as guards. Their presence created an atmosphere of apprehension more than safety, Rev. Brackley told friends.

But as it turned out, the killings had marked a turning point in the war, attracting worldwide attention and congressional investigations. A peace accord was signed in 1992. Throughout the 1990s, Rev. Brackley was the unofficial Jesuit greeter for waves of official and unofficial delegations of visitors to the killing site. Representative James McGovern, of Worcester, was then a staff investigator for Representative Joe Moakley of South Boston, who was chairman of one of the House investigating committees.

Rev. Brackley is survived by his mother; two brothers, Douglas, of Glen Burnie, and Richard, of Mechanicsville, and a sister, Jane Davis of Brentwood, Tenn. By David Stringer ASSOCIATED PRESS LONDON Veteran British broadcaster Jimmy Savile, a famously eccentric culture figure, has died at his home in northern England. He was 84. Mr.

Savile, known for his garish tracksuits, chunky gold jewelry, and boundless enthusiasm for pop music and charity work, was the host of two long-running British television programs and claimed to have been a longtime confidant to Prince Charles and former prime minister Margaret Thatcher. Rarely seen without his trademark large cigar, Mr. Savile had initially worked in a coal mine as a teenager before embracing music and built a national profile as a disc jockey first in Britain's dance halls and later on radio, including the renowned Radio Luxembourg. West Yorkshire Police confirmed that officers had been called yesterday to Mr. Savile's home in Leeds, and said that there were no suspicious circumstances surrounding his death.

The cause of his death is not known. Mr. Savile claimed have been the first DJ in the world to use two turntables enabling continuous music to be played inventing the techniques later embraced by modern dance music, cord has probably the best records of flowering time and bird arrival time of anywhere in the United States, and Pennie was part of this." In 2007, Primack and Abraham J. Miller-Rushing wrote about climate change for the Globe, and cited Mrs. Logemann's work.

"For 40 years," they noted, "Concord resident Pennie Logemann paid close attention to when the strawberries flowered in her garden." Pennie Penttila was born in Rindge, N.H., to Finnish emigrants. MATTHEW LEWISGETTY IMAGESFILE 2006 ject of a much watched television documentary in 2000 by film maker Louis Theroux, son of author Paul Theroux. under Reagan look at his time at the White House. In it, he called Donald Regan, a Treasury secretary and chief of staff under Reagan, "a tower of jelly." He praised Reagan for vision and charisma, but lamented that as president he had been unable to curtail federal spending. "In the end," Mr.

Niskanen wrote, "there was no Reagan revolution." Share your memories. Celebrate a life and share your thoughts and memories in an online guestbook. Visit boston.comobituaries and follow the prompts. cotn Broadcaster Jimmy Savile was known for his garish tracksuits, chunky gold jewelry, and trademark large cigar. and to have pioneered the use of recorded music, rather than live bands, at nightclubs.

"History has it that I was the very, very first in the whole world" to organize a disco event, he told the BBC in May. Bestowed with a knighthood for his charity fund-raising, Mr. Savile was best known as the host of the BBC's "Top Of The Pops" weekly television pop music show, launching the program in 1964 and returning to present its final edition in 2006. For almost 20 years from 1975, Mr. Savile also hosted the hugely popular series "Jim'll Fix It," in which the broadcaster responded to children's letters by arranging for their wishes to be realized.

Mr. Savile championed a host of good causes frequently running marathons to raise money and led work to collect $32 million for the creation of a national spinal injuries center at Stoke Mandeville Hospital in southern England. "He was a very energetic character," friend and fellow radio presenter David Hamilton told Britain's Sky News television. "But most of all, I remember him as just a totally flamboyant, over the top, larger than life character and as he was on the air, he was just the same off." Mr. Savile never married and lived alone, reserving part of his A few years after joining Ford in 1975 and becoming its chief economist, he was critical of the company when it ended its longtime commitment to free trade and pushed for restrictions on Japanese imports.

Mr. Niskanen contended that the real challenge to the domestic auto industry came not from Japan, but from the inability of American carmakers to cater to the public's desire for smaller, more fuel-efficient vehicles. He also thought it inappropriate for corporations to ask Washington for breaks. "A common commitment to refrain from special favors," he wrote in a memo at the time, "serves the same economic function as a common commitment to refrain from stealing." His criticism did not sit well with Ford and it fired him. In 1984, while at the Council of Economic Advisers, he caused a stir when, in a speech before a group called Women in Government Relations, he suggested that one reason men were often paid more than women in comparable jobs was because women interrupted their careers to raise children.

ByPaulVitello NEW YORK TIMES NEW YORK The Rev. Dean Brackley belonged to an order of priests, the Jesuits, sometimes referred to as "God's Marines," because of a 16th-century founder's military background and because of their long tradition of intellectual rigor as teachers and missionaries. Rev. Brackley, who died Oct. 16 in El Salvador, imbued that nickname with some literal meaning in 1990, when he left a teaching job at Fordham University to take up residence in the San Salvador university dormitory where six Jesuit priests and two women had recently been killed by government military forces.

He admitted being scared. But the job description for replacements of the slain priests, all of them faculty members at the Un-iversidad Centroamericana, seemed to have his name on it: "They wanted a Jesuit. They wanted someone who had a PhD in theology. They wanted someone who spoke Spanish," he told a friend. "I started looking around and realized there weren't that many of us." He said he would return in four or five years.

Rev. Brackley remained in the job for the rest of his life. A spokesman for the university said the cause of death was pancreatic cancer. He was 65. His decision to go to El Salvador was not the first time Rev.

Brackley had taken the road less traveled. In 1980, after completing his doctorate in theology at the University of Chicago, he had several teaching offers from colleges around the country, said the Rev. Neil Connolly, pastor of St. Mary's Catholic Church in Manhattan and a longtime friend. Instead, Rev.

Brackley took a job with a church-sponsored community organization in New York called South Bronx People for Change, where he worked with drug addicts, helped tenants organize, and acted as a go-between in tensions between residents and the police. He had been there almost 10 years and begun riding his bicycle to Fordham University to teach ethics and theology classes when the six Jesuits, their housekeeper and her 16-year-old daughter were killed on Nov. 16, 1989. Inquiries determined that the killings were carried out during an extended battle between left-wing insurgents and government forces, part of the country's decade-long civil war. American-trained government soldiers, who considered the Jesuits leftist sympathizers, dragged the six priests from their William A.

Niskanen, economist who served Leeds home as a shrine to his late mother. His guarded, and sometime curious, private life was the sub Walter F. Mondale, then the Democratic presidential nominee, leapt on the comments and said they reflected the Reagan administration's attitude toward women. A White House spokesman said Mr. Niskanen had expressed his own views, not those of the administration.

William Arthur Niskanen was born in Bend, and earned a bachelor's degree from Harvard and a doctorate in economics from the University of Chicago, where he studied under Milton Friedman, the free-marketer and Nobel laureate. Mr. Niskanen, who lived in Washington, is survived by his wife, Kathryn Washburn, and three daughters; Lia Niskanen of Brooklyn, Pamela Niskanen of West Winfield, and Jaime Brunetti of Berkeley, Calif. Mr. Niskanen's essays are collected in "Bureaucracy and Public Economics" and "Reflections of a Political Economist: Selected Articles on Government Policies and Political Processes." He also wrote a memoir, "Reaganomics: An Insider's Account of the Policies and the People," an occasionally critical By David Segal NEW YORK TIMES William A.

Niskanen, an economist who was dismissed by Ford Motor Co. after bluntly opposing the company's embrace of trade protection and who later served as a member of President Ronald Reagan's Council of Economic Advisers, died Wednesday in Washington. He was 78. His death, of a stroke, was announced by the Cato Institute, the libertarian research organization, where he had been chairman for 23 years before stepping down in 2008. Mr.

Niskanen had a long career as an economist, both in and out of government. He taught at the University of California at both Berkeley and Los Angeles, worked as a defense analyst at the Rand and held prominent positions at the Office of Management and Budget, where he was assistant director, and at the Defense Department, where he was the director of special studies for the secretary of defense. Mr. Niskanen, who stood 6-foot-4, was rarely one to tailor his message to his audience..