a a a a a a a A ARE de: 6 'A --4 21 B6 OBITUARIES, NEW ENGLAND Union-News, Tuesday, September 18, 2001 Mourners cherish fallen pilot The crash of Flight 11 claimed the life of a Massachusetts flyer and Vietnam veteran who also proudly wore the hat of husband, father and farmer. By KEN MAGUIRE Associated Press DRACUT -A pilot and a patriot, John Ogonowski would be pleased with how his country has responded since the unprecedented acts of terror that killed him and thousands of others, his brother said yesterday. of three daughters, was the cap-. Ogonowski, a 50-year-old father tain of American Flight 11, which was hijacked from Logan Airport last week and crashed into the World Trade Center. Minutes later, another jet, United Flight 175, also from Logan, also was crashed into the twin towers.
"How ironic that the jets were on airlines named United and American," Jim Ogonowski told an overflowing crowd of family, friends and airline workers who gathered at St. Francis Church to remember his brother. "United Americans standing tall. That's what John sees today when he looks down. Our spirit stands unbroken.
John would be so proud." More than 400 uniformed airline employees were among the 2,000 who attended the memorial Mass in the church built on land Ogonowski had donated. U.S. Sens. John Kerry and Edward M. Kennedy and U.S.
Rep. Martin Meehan also attended. The church held only 600 people. Two large tents were set up on either side to accommodate the overflow crowd. John Panarelli, 48, drove more than 20 hours from Georgia to attend the Mass.
Ogonowski had been Panarelli's flight instructor when both were stationed at Charleston Air Force base. "He was the consummate aviator. He was one of the greatest pilots," said Panarelli, who now. works as a pilot for freight carrier Emery Worldwide. Ogonowski had four great loves in his life, his brother said: his country, flying, farming and teasingly, and lovingly, called him John Deere Johnny," Jim Ogonowski said.
Margaret Ogonowski, wife of daughter Caroline, 14, looks on Dracut. Ogonowski was the Trade Center in New York after He was a pilot for American for 23 years. He also was an avid farmer who leased parts of his land to Cambodian immigrants so they could grow exotic produce native to their homeland. He worked actively to preserve open space, and Jim Ogonowski said that John's 150-acre farm in Dracut would remain open space, as his brother would have wanted. Ogonowski was born in Lowell.
and graduated from Lowell Technical Institute in 1972 with a bachelor's degree in nuclear engineering. He was a captain in the U.S. Air Force and was a Vietnam veteran who went to pilot training in Texas and then was assigned to Charleston Air Force Base in South Carolina where he flew C-141 transports. He served in the military for seven years. A flag that had been flown at half-staff since Tuesday's plane was lowered outside the Associated Press American Airlines pilot John Ogonowski, holds the U.S.
flag as her during a memorial Mass yesterday at St. Francis Church in captain last Tuesday of Flight 11, which crashed into the World being taken over by hijackers. church after Mass. Two flags that Greg Dooley of Dracut, rememhad been flown over the U.S. capi- bered Ogonowski as a man deditol were given to his wife, Marga- cated to helping his community ret, and his mother, Theresa.
His who occasionally wandered daughters, Laura, 16, Caroline, 14, around town with hay stuck to his and Mary Katherine, 11, wept as clothes. they stood alongside during the "He was a regular guy, except exchange. he could fly a jet," Dooley said. "Even if the forces of darkness "Once he had a belief, he stuck appear to prevail, those of us who with it. The town has lost more believe in God know that evil and than a person who farmed." death do not have the final say," American Airlines flight attenthe Rev.
Brian Kiely said. dant Gynni Neri described him as Outside the church, mourners "the sweetest man in the world" who had arrived by busloads held and said he occasionally brought hands while tears ran down many doughnuts for the crew. of their faces. Inside a reception "It was always a pleasant surarea at the church, a table dis- prise to see his name on the flight played a series of photographs of list," she said. Ogonowski and his family.
It also In his eulogy, Jim Ogonowski had a plaque given to him when he reminded family and friends not to became an American Airlines cap- look at John's death as the end of tain in 1989, and a certificate of ap- his existence. preciation from the USDA for his "John lives on in you, in your work with the federal farm pro- hearts, and in your minds," Jim gram. said. "His legacy lives on forever." Partial list of terrorist allack victims World Trade Center Eric Allen, firefighter, New York Fire Department Louis Arena, firefighter, New York Fire Department Peter Carroll, 35, firefighter, New York Fire Department Stephen P. Cherry, 41, Stamford, partner, Cantor Fitzgerald Swede Joseph Chevalier, 26, Middletown, N.J., equities trader, Cantor Fitzgerald Timothy John Coughlin, 42, New York, N.Y., senior managing director, Cantor Fitzgerald Capt.
Martin Egan firefighter, New York Fire Department Stephen J. Fierelli, 43, Aberdeen, civil engineer, Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, Sean Hanley, firefighter, New York Fire Department Timothy J. Margrave, 38, Cantor Fitzgerald The AP count of terrorist attack victims confirmed dead and identified by name totals 321. Of those, the following names were confirmed in the past 24 hours by family members, friends, coworkers, and government officials. United Airlines Flight 175, Boston to Los Angeles, crashed Into World Trade Center CREW: Kathryn LaBorie, flight dant, United Airlines United Marie Airlines Pappalardo Flight 93, Now.
ark, N.J., to San Francisco, crashed in rural southwest Pennsylvania Donald Peterson, 66, Spring Lake, N.J., retired presiContinental Electric Co. Jean Houdley Peterson, 55, Spring Lake, NJ. John C. Hart, 64, Basking Ridge, N.J., senior vice president, Fudiciary Trust International William Henry, firefighter, New York Fire Department Mary Kimelman, 34, Cantor Fitzgerald Farrell Peter Lynch, 39, Centerport, N.Y., trader, Cantor Fitzgerald Francis Noel 'McGuinn, 50, Rye, N.Y., managing director of emerging markets, Cantor Fitzgerald Lt. Dennis Mojica, firefighter, New York Fire Department Manuel Mojica, firefighter, New York Fire Department Christopher W.
Murphy, 35, Stamford, senior research analyst, Keefe, Bruyette Woods Richard Prunty, battalion commander, New York Fire Department Thomas Barnes Reinig, 48, Bernardsville, N.J., investment banker, Cantor Fitzgerald Big Dig consultant may cut its profit if costs skyrocket By THOMAS C. PALMER JR. Boston Globe Boston Globe For the first time in the 15-year history of the Big Dig, the state's management consultant, Parsons Brinckerhoff, will negotiate a reduction in profit if the huge highway and tunnel project's cost continues to skyrocket. The consultant's current fiveyear contract offers financial incentives if project managers reduce costs something even they admit is unlikely. But it does not penalize the two multinational companies that run the project if its price tag keeps going up.
Now, executives are willing to renegotiate their contract, which expires in 2005, to include a provision that would reduce their if they cannot keep costs from rising. The project's current estimated cost is about $14.5 billion. position is contained in a letter sent to Massachusetts Turnpike Authority officials, who are demanding a multimillion-dollar rebate from the consultants to offset more than a decade Other obituaries on Page B5 Mann In Loving Memory Of GLORIA (GUERRIERO) MANN who passed away May 30, 1997 Today is your birthday and our thoughts are of you. In our hearts your memory lingers, sweetly tender, fond and true. Sadly missed by Lewis Marie Belated i message LANOUE In LOVING MEMORY OF JAMES E.
LANOUE Who passed away Sept 18, 1988 Dad, "I MISS YOU" Love, Diane Russell In loving memory of Barbara Russell on her birthday Our love for you is everlasting You are forever in our hearts We will always remember your Irish spirit You are sadly missed and loved George, Kevin, Cindi, Judy their families and your grandchildren COLELLA IN LOVING MEMORY OF GEORGIA Z. COLELLA In our hearts your memory lingers, sweetly tender, fond and true, There is not a day, dear Mother, that we do not think of you. Sadly missed by Leslie, Denis Alex Family Friends Bonafilia 1 In loving memory wife, Josephine Bonafilla" who passed away 1 year ago today September 18, 2000 I dream of you dear loved one, And see your smiling face, And know that you are happy In your Father's chosen place. 13 Sadly missed and loved by Your husband Pap 114. AMELL In loving memory of ROBERT AMELL who passed away Sept.
18, 1974 Memories of you are as countless as the grains of sand on a windswept shore. They warm every corner of our lives. Yet the sands of time drift ever so slowly as we wait upon each other. Sadly missed by his wife Hope and his children David and Janice. 3 Producer, director De Cordova, 90 By BOB THOMAS 53 1 Associated Press LOS ANGELES Fred De Cordova, producer of "The Tonight Starring Johnny Carson" for 22 years and director of movies as Ronald Reagan's "Bedtime for Bonzo," has died.
He was 90. "De Cordova died Saturday of natural causes at the Motion Picture and Television Fund. Hospital in' suburban Woodland Hills, hospital spokeswoman Carla White said. Cordova proved the perfect overseer for Carson's brand of entertainment, making split-second decisions to keep the show moving as. he watched over Carson just a few' feet behind the camera.
He was often seen on camera answering Carson's questions or serving sthe butt of a joke. can't think of anything else that would be as interesting and as much fun as this. It's the best job in television," De Cordova once said. Leno, who took over as the show's host when Carson left, said De Cordova was a mentor. "He was a great friend and terrific producer who willingly and eagerly shared his counsel and insights with me during my career and when I became host of 'The Tonight Leno said yesterday.
"It testament to Fred's professionalism, experience and congeniality that, in this young people's business, he was still influencing the TV industry well into his De Cordova started his show business career in the theater, then came to Hollywood in 1942 as a dialogue director at Warner Bros. He moved up to director in 1945, but most of his films involved medium-size budgets and lesser stars. Among the titles: "That Way with Women," "The Countess of Monte Cristo," "The Gal Who Took the West." Producer of movies dies at 83 By MYRNA OLIVER Los Angeles Times LOS ANGELES Samuel Z. Arkoff, the off-beat producer exemplified in his hundreds of films from "I Was a Teenage Werewolf" to "The Amityville Horror," has died. He was 83.
Arkoff died Sunday in Providence St. Joseph's Medical Center in Burbank of natural causes, his family said. His motto was, "Thou shalt not put too much money into one picture. And with the money you do spend, put it on the screen. Don't waste it on the egos of actors or nonsense that might appeal to highbrow critics." The man who specialized in quickie movies with quirky titles lived to see himself become a legend, with a retrospective of his work at the Museum 'of Modern Art in New York City and such awards as Producer of the Year, Master Showman of the Decade and Pioneer of the Year from motion picture associations and a Commendatore of the Order of Merit from Italy.
American Movie Classics interviewed Arkoff earlier this year and saluted him and his studio in a documentary narrated by AIP alumnus Peter Bogdanovich, "It Conquered Hollywood: The Story of American International Pictures." "I suppose time can dignify anything," Arkoff noted in an interview with the Los Angeles Times in 1982, amused by his newfound respectability. The cigar-chomping Iowa farm boy, an Army cryptographer during World War II who went on to earn a law degree, loved movies and naturally drifted into entertainment law and then producing. In 1954 he joined with the late James H. Nicholson to create American International Pictures with a $3,000 loan. Art and creativity were not in his sights, although vision and innovation innately were.
He saw a teen-age and youth culture being ignored by the big studios, and set out to serve it, dishing up action, horror and sex all tinged with comic effects whatever the free-spending kids wanted. Unlike bigger studios, Arkoff's speedy AIP movie machine could skip from fad to fad as fast as teens' tastes. First up was newcomer Roger Corman's gritty racing film "The Fast and the Furious." Made for $60,000, it grossed $250,000. Arkoff and his company were off and running. Soon came "I Was a Teenage Werewolf" in 1957 starring Michael Landon.
It cost $100,000, took six days to make and grossed $2 million.A typical AIP film cost $300,000 and was shot in a week's time. With "The Amityville Horror" in 1979, the company grossed $65 million, and for the next 10 years held the record for the largest grossing independent film. One of Arkoff's series wholesome was his beach uncharacteristically many of them featuring popular singing heartthrob Frankie Avalon and "Mickey Mouse Club" favorite Annette Funicello. Arkoff made 13 of the films in the mid-1960s when the Beach Boys' "Surfin' USA" and Jan and Dean's "Surf City" topped the charts. In the 1950s, he produced "Reform School Girl," "How to Make a Monster," "Machine Gun Kelly," "Night of the Blood Beast," "Teenage Caveman," "War of the Colossal Beast," "A Bucket of Blood," "Diary of a High School "The Ghost of Dragstrip Hollow." Arkoff's career largely wound down in the early 1980s after his meteoric independent studio gradually crumbled.
His partner, Nicholson, left the company in 1969 and died in 1972. Arkoff merged AIP with Filmways International in 1979, and sold his own interests to Filmways in 1982. The combined company was sold to Orion Pictures which itself went under a few years later. Arkoff founded a new production company, Arkoff International Pictures, in 1981 but, in an evolving Hollywood, never again matched the success he had had with AIP. In 1992, he published his memoirs, "Flying Through Hollywood by the Seat of My Pants," written with Richard Trubo.
Arkoff's wife of 55 years, Hilda, died July 26. He is survived by son Louis, and daughter Donna Arkoff Roth, wife of Revolution Studios founder Joe Roth, and five grandchildren and one great of rising costs. "They would be willing to have discussions about putting part of their fee at risk," said a source familiar with the letter's content. Turnpike officials would not discuss details of the letter, which they received last week. The letter did not address the Turnpike's request for the return of $250 million of the approximately $1.5 billion that Bechtel has been paid since 1986.
An estimated $100 million of that amount is what Turnpike officials consider "pure profit." Big Dig records also indicate that about $550 million of the $1.5 billion has been paid to as "overhead." Overhead payments cover expenses unrelated to project design and construction, including salary bonuses. A tense chess game between angry Turnpike Authority board members and officials of the management firms has gone on since late June, when the board voted for much closer scrutiny of Brinckerhoff. The conflict over what board members view as a lack of disci John Santore, firefighter, New York Fire Department Sean Shielke, 27, New York, N.Y., Cantor Fitzgerald Timothy Stout, 42, Debbs Forry, N.Y., quality assurance specialist, Cantor Fitzgerald John J. Tobin, 47, Kenilworth, N.J., senior vice president, Marsh Mclennan Inc. Kenneth W.
Van Auken, 47, East Brunswick, N.J., bond trader, Cantor Fitzgerald Lawrence Virgilio, firefighter, New York Fire Department Lt. Michael Warchola, firefighter, New York Fire Department William J. Wik," 44, Crestwood, N.Y., AON Corp. Lt. Glenn Wilkinson, firefighter, New York Fire Department Lt.
John Williamson, battalion commander, New York Fire Department 44 This is probably the dumbest contract I've seen in 30 years of public office. It was hellbent on failure from its inception, and you don't have to be an MIT grad to know that. 11 Jordan Levy, Turnpike board ees and some by Turnpike employees. Turnpike officials want more control over financial claims by contractors and more accountability from the consultant. a Renegotiating the current contract.
The contract reduces the consultant's total profit to 7 percent from what in previous contracts was about 11 percent. Creating a "blue ribbon panel" of design and construction experts to assess performance on the job or placing a senior project executive over the existing team. The source said any new financial arrangement would have to limit losses. to of plined management over the project came to a head last month, following three new $100 million cost increases this summer. Board members have said they would terminate the state's contract with unless the consultants improve their performance.
"This is probably the dumbest contract I've seen in 30 years of public office," said Turnpike board member Jordan Levy. "It was hellbent on failure from its inception, and you don't have to be an MIT grad to know that." Board members had scheduled a meeting two weeks ago to seek answers from That meeting was postponed as the two sides held private negotiations. "I'm still hoping to put Humpty Dumpty together again," said Turnpike board chairman David Forsberg. According to the source, in its letter says it is willing to discuss: I Restructuring the project's organizational structure, in which some management positions are filled by employ- I a 4 A.
