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Reinald Werrenrath was born on 7 August 1883 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. He was a director and producer, known for Ding Dong School (1952), All-American Golf Tournaments (1946) and Chicago Cubs Baseball (1946). He was married to Frances M. Aston, Verna True Nidig and Ada Petersen. He died on 12 September 1953 in Plattsburgh, New York, USA.- David G. Hartwell was born on 10 July 1941 in Salem, Massachusetts, USA. He was married to Kathryn Cramer and Patricia Lee Wolcott. He died on 20 January 2016 in Plattsburgh, New York, USA.
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Wallace Westfeldt was born on 23 September 1923 in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. Wallace was a producer and director, known for The Huntley-Brinkley Report (1956) and Talking with David Frost (1991). Wallace was married to Miriam Goulding and Stacy Kauffeldt. Wallace died on 11 January 2015 in Plattsburgh, New York, USA.- Art Department
Noted painter and author Rockwell Kent was born in Tarrytown Heights, New York, on June 31, 1883. He was an architecture student at Columbia University in New York City but dropped out in his third year to pursue an art career. For ten years he held a variety of jobs--lobsterman and carpenter, among others--to support himself while trying to establish himself as an artist, but met with little or no success in that field. In 1917 he traveled to Alaska to paint and make woodcuts, and the works he did there were finally published in 1920 in the book "Wilderness: A Journal of Quiet Adventure in Alaska", and met with almost instant success. He published several more books containing his works over the years. He became known as one of America's most successful and influential artists and illustrators, and many of his works were purchased for permanent exhibition in major museums both in the US and abroad.
One of his more controversial works was done in 1938 when he painted a mural on the Post Office Building in Washington, DC, and in the mural he painted a message in an obscure Eskimo dialect. Many conservative religious and political organizations condemned him as a Communist, a leftist and a troublemaker for this "radical" message--even though most of them had no idea what it said, since few people in the US could read or write that dialect--and he had further run-ins with the more reactionary elements of US society over the years because of his art and politics. He was investigated by the notorious House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) for "subersive activities" throughout the 1940s and 1950s, and his being awarded the Lenin Peace Prize by the Soviet Union in 1967 did nothing to calm the controversy.
In addition to his paintings, he was also highly regarded as an illustrator, and illustrated editions of William Shakespeare's works, Herman Melville's "Moby Dick" and Geoffrey Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales", among others. He was also renowned for his work in lithographs and woodcuts.
Rockwell Kent died in Plattsburgh, New York, on March 13, 1971.- Anthony Senecal was born on 29 October 1941 in Plattsburgh, New York, USA. He died on 21 April 2020 in Plattsburgh, New York, USA.
- John LaDue was born on 10 February 1927 in Plattsburgh, Clinton County, New York. He died on 29 April 1994 in Plattsburgh, Clinton County, New York.
- Vladimir Munk was born on 27 February 1925 in Pardubice, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]. He was married to Kitty Lowi. He died on 30 September 2023 in Plattsburgh, New York, USA.