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FRIDAY, JULY 4, 2014 The Boston Globe Bll Obituaries Louis Zamperini; WWII veteran survived 47 days adrift the book, asked to interview his friends from college and the Army. "And now after the book was finished all of my college buddies are dead, all of my war buddies are dead," he said. "It's sad to realize that you've lost all your friends. But I think I made up for it. I made a new friend, Angelina Jolie.

And the gal really loves me; she hugs me and kisses me, so I can't complain." Mr. Zamperini was a guest of Jolie last year when she was presented with the Jean Her-sholt Humanitarian Award by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Hillenbrand called him "the grandest, most buoyant, most generous soul I ever knew." "In a life of almost unimaginable drama, he experienced supreme triumphs, but also brutal hardship, incomprehensible suffering, and the cruelty of his fellow man," she said in a statement. "But Louie greeted every challenge of his long journey with singular resilience, determination, and ingenuity, with a ferocious will to survive and prevail, and with hope that knew no master." Mr. Zamperini was born in the western New York city of Olean.

A group there is raising funds to place a granite marker in his honor in War Veterans Park in August. He was just 2 years old when his parents moved the family to Torrance, in Southern California, where he lived for the rest of his life. Zamperini Field, a city-owned public airport in Torrance, is named in his honor. A stadium at Torrance High School and the entrance plaza at USC's track and field stadium both bear his name. His wife, Cynthia Applewhite, whom he married in 1946, died in 2001.

He leaves his daughter, Cynthia, a son, Luke, and grandchildren. DANNY PITTSBSO ARCHIVES ASSOCIATED PRESS Captain Louis Zamperini (right) with another prisoner of war, Fred Garrett, after they returned to California in 1945. Mr. Zamperini was known as the "Torrance Tornado." Mr. Shapiro was a horn player in the BSO from 1937 to '76.

Harry Shapiro; horn player had long tenure with BSO By Christopher Weber ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES Louis Zamperini, an Olympic distance runner and World War II veteran who survived 47 days on a raft in the Pacific after his bomber crashed, then endured two years in Japanese prison camps, has died. He was 97 and had been suffering from pneumonia, a family statement said. "After a 40-day-long battle for his life, he peacefully passed away in the presence of his entire family, leaving behind a legacy that has touched so many lives," the family statement said Thursday. "His indomitable courage and fighting spirit were never more apparent than in these last days." Mr. Zamperini was the sub-ject of Laura Hillenbrand's best-selling book "Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption," which is being made into a movie directed by Angelina Jolie and is scheduled for a December release by Universal Pictures.

Jolie said the loss was "impossible to describe." "We are all so grateful for how enriched our lives are for having known him," she said in a statement. "We will miss him terribly." A high school and University of Southern California track star, Mr. Zamperini, known as the "Torrance Tornado," competed in the run at the 1936 Berlin Olympics. He finished eighth, but caught attention by running the final lap in 56 seconds. In World War II, he was a bombardier on a US Army Air Forces bomber that crashed in the Pacific Ocean during a reconnaissance mission.

He and one of the other surviving crew members drifted for 47 days on a raft in shark-infested waters before being captured by Japanese forces. He spent more than two years as a prisoner of war, surviving torture and near-starvation at the hands of his captors. Mr. Zamperini became a born-again Christian in 1949 after attending a Los Angeles crusade led by evangelist Billy Graham. He eventually traveled as an inspirational speaker, preaching the power of forgiveness.

At age 81, Mr. Zamperini, a five-time Olympic torch-bearer, ran a leg in the torch relay for the 1988 Winter Olympics in Nagano. During his visit, he attempted to meet with his most brutal wartime tormentor, Mut-suhiro Watanabe, a sergeant in jjj ASSOCIATED PRESSFILE 1936 spiring Stories." In accepting the honor, Mr. Zamperini, wearing the ever-present USC cap, recalled that Hillenbrand, while researching Angelina Jolie is working on a Myers, children's author; 76 By Jeremy Eichler GLOBE STAFF When Harry Shapiro was a boy, he accompanied his father, a freelance French horn player, to gigs across Boston, carrying his father's instrument and sitting for the performance right there in the pit next to him. "From then on, that was his favorite place to be," said his daughter Laura, "right where the musicians were, right where it was all happening." Mr.

Shapiro managed to secure that precise location, or something very close to it, for the entirety of a musical career that included more than six decades of involvement with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. From 1937 to 1976, he was a horn player with the BSO, appointed by Serge Koussevitzky. When his performing days came to an end, he stepped backstage, working as the BSO's assistant personnel manager, its transportation manager, and later as the manager of the Tan-glewood Music Center Orchestra, roles that placed him at the logistical nerve center of the institution. Mr. Shapiro died June 28 in The Cambridge Homes in Cambridge.

He was 100 and previously lived in Richmond and Needham. "The wealth of experience he had from doing so many different things for so long was just invaluable to all of us," said Ray Wellbaum, the BSO's orchestra manager. "He always seemed to be confident because he'd seen it all: weather, travel, artistic issues on stage. And he had the confidence of the musicians because he had been one of them." Mr. Shapiro also worked over the years as a contractor, hiring players and helping to build, virtually from scratch, the orchestras of the Boston Ballet and the Opera Company of Boston and later the Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra.

He was known by musicians across New England. Colleagues recall him as an indefatigable figure, with razor sharp ears, an assertive presence, and a comprehensive knowledge of the world of orchestral playing. "Harry was larger than life," said Pat Hollenbeck, president of the Boston Musicians' Association. "He had a fierce pride in the orchestras, and a dignity, in an old-school kind of way. His entire life was in this business.

And if you ever crossed him, you were in big trouble. But the other side of it was that he had a big heart. He cared." Hollenbeck recalled a time in the 1980s when the Boston Pops flew to Tokyo for performances. Most of the players emerged from the plane jet-lagged and disheveled, but Mr. Shapiro strode confidently off the plane.

"He didn't have a hair out of place and looked ready for the Olympics," Hollenbeck said. "Then he began barking at the Japanese bus drivers: 'Do you know who these people are? This is the Boston Pops. Get them to their Mr. Shapiro also had a passion for mentoring young musicians, whether through individ ual lessons, chamber music coaching, or helping them prepare for major auditions. And his enthusiasm was evidently reciprocated.

For years the students of the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra began each rehearsal by shouting "Good Morning, Mr. Shapiro" in a unison call that typically crescen-doed over the course of each summer, building by mid-August to a roar. In the 1990s, he began traveling in the winter season to Miami, where he consulted for another professional training orchestra, the New World Symphony, under the direction of Michael Tilson Thomas. One young horn player, who met Mr. Shapiro as an undergraduate, was Richard Sebring, now associate principal horn of the BSO.

"I always really admired his wonderful set of ears," Sebring said. "His comments were always spot on. He cut to the chase and never pulled a punch, which was very helpful for me as a student, because it eliminated a lot of guesswork." Mr. Shapiro was born in Roxbury, grew up in Revere, and graduated from Boston Latin School. He studied at The Juilliard School and during the Great Depression played in the People's Symphony Orchestra, where the horn section included his father.

After a year as first horn in the National Symphony Orchestra, Mr. Shapiro was accepted to the BSO. In a 2004 interview with the Globe, Mr. Shapiro recounted his first rehearsal with the BSO, at which he was poised to make a fractionally wrong entrance in Sibelius' Second Symphony, until a colleague jabbed him with an elbow just in time. "That guy saved my life," Mr.

Shapiro said. "I didn't realize that nobody started until the baton fell to the third button on Koussie's vest. After a total silence, this marvelous sound emerged, as if from nowhere." Mr. Shapiro was drafted and served in the US Army Air Force Band during World War II, stationed in England with performances in Paris and beyond. Not long after joining the BSO, he was introduced to Frances Sidd at Tanglewood, and they married in 1941.

She died in 1997. In addition to his daughter Laura of New York City, he leaves another daughter, Emily Koplik of Albuquerque; three grandchildren; and three greatgrandchildren. A memorial service, held at Tanglewood, will be announced for later in the summer, and the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra will dedicate its performance Sunday to his memory. "He was a real force, a strong force," said Sebring. "And he just had such an unbounded love for this organization, a sense of belonging to this great BSO family.

I think Harry felt very much like the patriarch of it." Jeremy EicMer can be reached atjeichlerglobe.eom. Japan's Imperial Army who served as a guard at several POW camps. But Watanabe, who escaped prosecution as a war criminal, refused to see him. In speeches all over the world, Mr. Zamperini never failed to mention his alma mater, said former USC track and field coach Ron Alice.

"He was the greatest ambassador the university ever had," Alice said. "At every appearance, at every speech, he always wore his USC hat. He was the most gracious, humble, inspiring person you'd ever hope to meet, just very, very special. And that's why there's going to be a movie of his life." In May, Mr. Zamperini was named grand marshal of the 2015 Rose Parade in Pasadena, Calif, which next New Year's Day will feature the theme "In- Walter Dean By Hillel Italie ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK Walter Dean Myers, a best-selling and prolific children's author and tireless champion of literacy and education, has died.

He was 76. Mr. Myers, a resident of Jersey City, died Tuesday at a hospital in Manhattan after a brief illness, publisher HarperCollins announced. A onetime troublemaker who dropped out of high school, the tall, soft-spoken Mr. Myers spent much of his adult life writing realistic and accessible stories about crime, war, and life in the streets.

He wrote more than 100 books, his notable works including "Monster" and "Lock-down," and was the rare author to have a wide following among middle-school boys. He was a three-time National Book Award nominee, received five Coretta Scott King awards for African-American fiction, and in 2012-13 served as National Ambassador for Young People's Literature, a position created in part by the Library of Congress. Well before that, he traveled the country, visiting schools, prisons, and libraries. "He wrote with heart and he spoke to teens in a language they understood. For these reasons, and more, his work will live on for a long, long time," Susan Katz, president of HarperCollins Children's Books, said in a statement.

Mr. Myers's books were usually narrated by teenagers trying to make right choices when the wrong ones were so much UNIVERSAL PICTURES film of the survivor's life. do with sports, street life, and establishing myself as a male. The other voice, the one I had from my street friends and teammates, was increasingly dealing with the vocabulary of literature." Mr. Myers was gifted enough to be accepted to one of Manhattan's best public schools.

But he was shy, too poor to afford new clothes, and unable to keep up with the work. Mr. Myers began skipping school for weeks at a time and never graduated. "I know what falling off the cliff means," he said in 201 1 He served three years in the military, and later was employed as a factory worker, a messenger on Wall Street, and a construction worker. Eager to be a writer, he contributed to Alfred Hitchcock's mystery magazine and several sports publications.

After his half-brother Wayne died in Vietnam, he wrote a tribute for Essence magazine. His first book "Where Does the Day Go?" -was published in 1969. His visits with students and inmates not only gave him the chance to help others straighten out their lives, but also inspired his work. "Lockdown," a National Book Award finalist, began after Mr. Myers met a kid who was afraid to get out of jail because he would only get in trouble again.

Mr. Myers's novel "On a Clear Day" is scheduled to come out in September. He leaves his wife, Constance, and two sons. A daughter, Karen, died earlier. CHARLES SYKESAPFILE 2010 Mr.

Myers was a tireless champion of education. easier. There was the 17-year-old hiding from the police in "Dope Sick," or the boarding school student in "The Beast" who learns his girlfriend is hooked on drugs. He is careful not to make judgments, and in the crime story "Monster" left doubt about whether the narrator was really guilty. One of five siblings, he was born Walter Milton Myers in Martinsburg, W.

in 1937. His mother died when he was 18 months old, and he was sent to Harlem and raised in a foster home by Herbert and Florence Dean, a janitor, and a cleaning woman and factory worker, respectively. In honor of his foster parents, he took the pen name Walter Dean Myers. Over 6 feet tall by middle school, he was a basketball star, but also a stutterer who was teased and often fought back. Meanwhile, back home, he was happy to sit and read.

"There were two very distinct voices going on in my head and I moved easily between them," Mr. Myers wrote in his memoir, "Bad Boy" which came out in 2001. "One had to ABC ARCHIVESFILE 1982 Mr. Hastings was also in the cast of "General Hospital." Bob Hastings, actor in 'McHale's Nay ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES An actor best known from the 1960s sitcom "McHale's Navy," has died. Bob Hastings was 89.

Allison Knowles said her grandfather died Monday in his Burbank, home after a battle with prostate cancer. Mr. Hastings won fans on "McHale's Navy" as Lieutenant Carpenter, a bumbling yes-man. He had other memorable roles on "All in the Family" and "General Hospital." Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., Mr. Hastings began his career at age 11 on radio dramas.

He branched out into television in its infancy, snagging a role on "Captain Video and His Video Rangers" in 1949. Other early acting jobs included a recurring role on the military comedy "The Phil Silvers Show." Later TV appearances included "Ironside," "The Dukes of Hazzard," "Major Dad," and "Murder, She Wrote.".