0-5 THE SUNDAY TIMES. MARCH 9. 1986-SCRANTON, PA. Grandma Loved Hundreds of Kids Scranton Native Heads Chapter The Personality of the Week is a native of Scranton who has been elected president of the Baltimore Chapter of Executive Women International (EWI), the intematinal organiation for professional women in business. She is Tamara Elise Coleman, a resident of Columbia, and executive assistant to Nicholas Brown, the executive director of the National Aquarium in Baltimore.
Previously she was the executive assistant to Parks Sausage Company president, Raymond V. Haysbert Sr. Mrs. Coleman began her affiliation with EWI in 1979 and since that time has served as membership director, program director and vice-president president-elect of the organization's Baltimore chapter. As EWI president, Mrs.
Coleman is responsible for overseeing the chapters fund-raising and development activities, hosting monthly events for Baltimore area businesses, and chairing meetings, seminars and conferences. She also represents Baltimore at area conferences and international conventions, including the upcoming annual meeting and convention in Edmonton, Canada, in May. Mrs. Coleman, the former Tamara Gaither, is married to Donald Coleman, an employe of the Reynolds Paint Company. They have three children, Derrick, Darryl and Donald II.
The EWI has more than 4,000 member firms in the United States, Canada and Mexico. The Baltimore Chapter has more than 60 member firms. EAST HANOVER, N.J. (AP) She raised more than 250 foster children, Ida Braun, considered New Jerseys unofficial grandmother by many. She was blind to religion, color and disability in her benevolence, taking in the black, white, Indian, Catholic, Jew as well as the handicapped.
Mrs. Braun, mother of seven sons, grandmother of 22 and great-grandmother of seven, had always been sort of everybodys grandmother, said her pastor, the Rev. Fred Depenbrock of First Presbyterian Church of Hanover. When Mrs. Braun died recently at Morristown Memorial Hospital of complications from a stroke, she was 74.
Mrs. Brain's surviving sons one died at a young age said Mrs. Braun had as many as 17 foster children living in her home at any one time, and she also provided day care for more than 100 children. Donald Braun, 53, her second-born son, said his mother's compassion for others grew from her own childhood in a senes of orphanages and foster homes. She didnt talk about it at all, but from the little she said, she obviously went through a pretty rough time, he said.
It was definitely the basis for everything that followed. Another son, Gus, said, She never had too much to do. She never had too many to take care of." A funeral service was to be held this morning at the Braviak Funeral Home in Whippany, followed by a memorial service at First Presbytenan Church. Her family said Mrs. Braun's childhood separation from her 12 brothers and sisters and a lack or love in her orphanages and foster homes caused her to want something better for other children in the same straits.
Her sons childhood memories are of clotheslines laden with wet diapers in every room, wall-to-wall blankets and gigantic meals. Some of her foster children stayed for a few days while awaiting adoption, and others lived with Mrs. Braun for years. They were sent from agencies as diverse as the state Division of Youth and Family Services, Catholic Adoptive Services and the United Jewish Appeal, and from individuals who had heard of her reputation as a foster mother. In accenting so many children, Mrs.
Braun's attitude seemed to be what's another mouth to feed, said Colleen Cook, a 22-year-old secretary who was the only foster child who did not move on. She was raised by the Brauns since she was abandoned as a 3-day-old infant and continued to live with Mrs. Braun and her husband, Herbert, 83. In 1984, First Presbyterian Church, where Mrs. Braun sang in the choir and taught religion, honored her as Mother of the Year.
She was always there, always helpful, said the Rev. Readers who wish to nominate candidates for The Sunday Times Personality of the Week may do so by writing to Christine Vanston, Todays Living Editor, The Scranton Times and Sunday Tunes, 149 Penn Scranton, Pa. Personalities are selected for The Sunday Times' People Page on the basis of their current newsworthy community contributions. Promenading With Chris Members of the group mingled with members of the quintet as all enjoyed tea, coffee, strawberries dipped in chocolate mousse, pineapple-cream cheese pastries, red and green ribbon sandwiches, chocolate strings and bananas with coconut. There was background music.
Among those present were: Jean and Dr. Hugo Mori (Jean is president of Community Concert Association); Ruth Greenfield, Al Soma, Edith and Charles Gardner, Leona and Charles Utt, Ruth and Dr. Norman Berger, Joanne and Fergus Monahan, Ann and Leo Moskovitz, Anne Liva, Carol and Dr. Robert Wright, Diane Lustig, Patricia and Frank Opshinsky, Emily and Dr. Anthony Perry, Regina Petrauskas, Reva and Harold Sprung, Dolores Moreiko, Dr.
Clarice Zaydon, Bob and June Lettieri, Pat and Carton Preate, Joyce and Robert Herrema, Robert McKeage, Vi and John Kelly, Ed Frey, Nick and Jean Augustine, Marge McNulty, Gene Brislin, John Gavigan, Dr. Peter Cupple, Frank Gilette, Carol Nelson, Donald Dembert, attorney James and Boots Zaydon, Klara and Dr. Njegos Petrovich, Nancy and Louis Biginani, Dr. Gino Mori, Susan Scranton, Sara Eisner, Pat and Ralph Sterling, Joan Brady, Sharon Brady, Pat and William Acker, Elsa Laster, Lynne and Robert Brown, Esther Singer, Dr. Vito DelVecchio, Diane and David Kirtland, Maureen and Jorge Garcia-Pons, Lisa and jjoe DeMattio, Ronald Halko, Adele Pollack, John Darcy, Audrey Albini, Anne Liva, Jimmy Sutton, Alexis Ramov, Lee and Herb Hollenberg, Kenneth McGraw, Sister Immaculate Severino, IHM; Mary Speicher, Paula Roos, Nancy Weinberger, Mary Ann Burkew, Cindy Boris, Andrea Dawkins, Ronald Halko, Eileen and David Epstein, Claire Giombetti, Irene Demchak, Nancy Hemler, Fafi and Tom Karam, Ann and Al Margolies, Louise and Joseph Severini.
Former Scranton newswoman Judy Sammon Felber and her husband, Richard, Shaker Heights, Ohio, have returned to their home after a trip to California, whor* they attended a convention in San Francisco, and visited their first grandchild, Aaron James Bankhurst, and his parents, Casey and James Bankhurst, in La Jolla. Judy is now vice president and treasurer of a new company, Richard Felber Designs, which her husband has started. He also is a partner in and executive vice president of the S.M. Hexter Co. Cleveland, Ohio.
Dick designs wallpapers for European as well as American companies. Among the many enjoying the spectacular night view of the To celebrate the 85th birthday of their mother, Catherine N. Kearney, a buffet dinner was given in Jay's Banquet Room recently by Kitsy and Jack Winger, Scranton, and Maureen and Jim Kearney, Rockville, Md. Catherine received a blessing from Pope John Paul II, greetings from President Ronald Reagan and Congressman Joseph McDade, and a citation from the House of Representatives of the state of Pennsylvania, among other tributes and gifts. Present at the party were George Nealon, Mentor, Ohio, and his daughter, Regina, Alexandria, Loretta Foley, Edison, N.J.; Mary Murphy, Pottstown, and local friends and relatives, including: Mary and Terrie Gilroy, Peg and Jim Nealon, and daughters, Regina and Peggy Ann Hart; Helen and Ed Travis, and family, Eddie, Tammy and Bob Graham, and Debbie and Larry Waters.
Also present were Ceil Kearney, Peg O'Boyle, Joe and Peg Kearney and family; Maureen and Rosemary and Lenny Lavelle; Joe and Ann Munley, Jim Winger, grandson, and Jennifer Heppler. Former neighbors Dave and Ebe Lewis and Gerrie and Bob Peil were there along with present neighbors, Ann and Jack Moran, Alice Loughman and Alice Golden. Other friends attending were Evelyn and Tom McGuire, Dorothy Williams, Betty White, Helen Ruddy, Mary Walsh, Margaret Tomasetti, Florence Cambardella, Alice Akroyd, Mae and Jeanne Gaffney, Mary Carol and Pete Kanton, Betsy and Jack Youngblood, and Eleanor and Paul Henry. Sister St. Joseph, Catherine's sister, was unable to attend because of illness.
Also missed was Frank Winger, grandson, a student in Detroit, Mich. A huge whipped cream icing birthday cake was served to all, compliments of grandson Lt. lack Winger, Fort Huachuca, Ariz, who is on temporary duty in Germany. Favors consisted of a poem composed by Sister St. Joseph entitled, "The Magic of Friends," which was printed on a white card decorated with forget-me-nots.
The place cards were handprinted in calligraphy by Mrs. Frieda Hollenback. Diane Augustine and her husband, Richard Jablonski, cosponsers with Northeastern Bank for the Canadian Brass Community Concert last Sunday evening, entertained at a tea dance on the fourth floor of Masonic Temple after the presentation. Spring flowers and floral print hatboxes formed the table centerpiece. valley as well as co*cktails and dinner last Friday evening, Feb.
28, at the new Castaway Restaurant on the Scranton-Carbondale Highway were Peggy Phillips, Betty and Dave Jones, Peg and Tom Harrington, Pauline and John Bamford, Helen Quinn, Angela May, Peg Klee, Peg Evans and Chris Vanston. The restaurant is tastefully furnished with antique pieces, stained glass, Victorian chandeliers and fans and many other pieces, in a seaport theme. Head waiter Joe Nese, assistant manager, Giorgio Vacaieiio, and lidsiess Sue Chesko, were on hand to greet the diners and to convey compliments from them to the chef for an exceptionally good dinner. A Valentine party was conducted recently at the home of Roland "Rollie" and Marie Alunni, Jessup. All couples attending were required to wear Valentine colors of red, pink or white.
The Alunni home was decorated with red and pink heart shaped balloons, red Valentine hearts, and red, white and pink streamers. Pink ash trays and red heart shaped dishes filled with heart shaped candies were placed throughout the Alunni home. A smorgasboard of homemade food included minestrone soup, pigs in the blanket, roast beef, Italian seasoned roasted chicken, kielbasi, stuffed mushrooms, deviled eggs, macaroni salad, Caesar salad and crab meat molds. Those attending were Debbie and Eddie Alunni, Mary Elaine and Paul Gregori, Paula and Jim Ingoldsby, Cathy and Mark Alvaro, Beth and Bob Torre, Lynn Povanda, Linda Melnick and Nick Krehel, Christine and Bob Mahalidge, Linda and Bernie fa*gnani, Donna and Joe Cavagnaro, Sue and Wally Checefsky, Ellen and Stan March, Annette Kutchmanich and A Ido Cardoni, Lee Ann Julio and Ed Mahalidge, Pat and Joe Carey, Rose Ann Mecca and Paul Povanda. The Amity Club recently held its monthly meeting at the home of Mary Greco.
Luncheon was served and election of officers took place. Elected were Millie Ciprian, president; Mary Kupchak, secretary, and Connie Fiorenza, treasurer. Outgoing officers are Millie Ferraro, Mary Greco and Connie Kalinowski. The next meeting will be held in the home of Connie Kalinowski, where plans will be discussed for the 52nd anniversary of the club. How Nancy Reagan Lost Her 24-Hour Wonder Chief By RICHARD JOHNSON New York Port works, is about to find out bow capitalism works.
The world's publishers are tooling up for the literary rumble of the year. fighting for Shcharansky's rights. Not human rights. Publishing rights. Shcharansky's autobiography could make him around S5 million -and big write his own number on a blank check.
But money may not do the talking. Random House is relying on the refusenik connections of its president, Bob Bernstein, and executive editor Pater Osnoe, former Washington Post Moscow correspondent, to secure the deal. Simon It Schuster executive editor Michael Korda would not discuss Shcharansky maneuvers, but he told us: "It could be a book of tremendous importance. He has been through a ghastly ordeal, but emerges from it not at all bitter. He is a remarkable man.
I don't think be is the kind of person you necessarily go to, saying. 'Here's a lot of money Write a book 'It would be tactless and bad manners Unul Shcharansky does sign up. the publishing coup to date goes to Viking In 1983. historian Martin Gltbart began an authorized biography to be used as a weapon in the war to free him. It was completed two weeks before he actually was freed, and will be published ui May.
(CCW VOrt POCt Dftntutd tf im Anyues Tunes Syndc and press secretary Elaine Crltpen -marched into her office and announced they could not live with the new regime. Our spy tells us Nancy made it plain to Deaver: You got me into this; you get me out. Deaver gave Verstandig a job at hisdirm. Sacral BeHot Cries of dirty pool! The forces of Jack Kamo and Georg Burti are scratching each other's eyes out Kemp's team claims their man was the overall favorite of a presidential preference survey in Conservative Digest. The mag published a tear-out, send-in sheet in its January issue.
The Kemp men claim the results are being kept secret by Bush partisans, particularly Craig Shirley, who flacks for both the magazine and Bushs Fund for America's Future. Shirley denies the results are in. I dont have the numbers yet. he told EAVESDROPPING. Asked why, then, the Kemp forces are already claiming victory, he replied, Maybe they stuffed the ballot box.
Pursuit of Anatoly Anatoly Shcharantky, who already knows a good deal about bow communism bucks for everyone connected with it: lawyers, agents, publishers, syndicators and movie makers. Random House, Simon Schuster, Harper Row, Macmillan, Putnam and Weidenfeld Nicholson are all elbowing for a piece of what could be Russia's greatest contribution to the S. economy since they sold us Alaska. Publishing sources expect the bidding to start at $2 million. But so far, Shcharansky has shown no interest in even speaking to any of the international host of magazine chains and book publishers who have been sending emissaries, telegrams and letters to Jerusalem.
He doesn't even have an agent. Shcharansky told EAVESDROPPING through friends: I am under a lot of pressure to write a book. I am really being pushed. Right now I am on vacation, and while my life is an open book, where I am is my first secret. The German magazine Stem is working on a mulUnullion-dollar offer.
Time magazine has offered 8100.000 for a cover story. The French publisher. Editions JawiCiauda Lattaa, has written Jerusalem asking Shcharansky to I It was short and anything but sweet for poor Lm Veratandlg. Just 24 days after he was named Nancy Reagan's chief of staff, be was out of the East Wing and on the street. Verstandig was quietly replaced in the $73,600 job by long-time Jleagan associate Jack Cour-tamancha, a Californian the First Family has known and trusted for years.
But the change leaves egg on the face of at least me loyal Reaganaut -former communications director HI-chart K. Daavar, now a political consultant, who was responsible for Verstandig's disastrous 24-day appointment. No one told Verstandig Nancy is not like her mild-mannered husband. Mrs. Reagan is slow to trust newcomers, and wherever possible runs things either herself or with people shes known a long time.
Worst thing Lee did was demand that all access to the First Lady go through him. Nancy's most powerful aides -Kan Banin, who handles her all-important anU-drug campaign, ANATOLY SHCHARANSKY.
