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GHOST TOWN!1913 FLOODS KNOCKED OUT BRIDGE, CLINTONVILLE DRIED UP/SEE B1

Cooperstown celebratesBUD FOWLER WEEKENDFULL SCHEDULE OF EVENTS, A3

Jim Kevlin/The Freeman’s JournalMayor Jeff Katz holds up the “Fowler” name CCS varsity baseball players are expected to wear on their uniforms at the Sat-urday, April 20, dedication of “Fowler Way.”

The activities of Cooperstown’s Bud Fowler Weekend – from the dedication of “Fowler Way” to MLB Official Historian John

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Ex-hippies rejoice.Former Grateful Dead mem-

bers Bob Weir and Phil Lesh

will perform the original band’s song-book with their successor band, Fur-thur, Sunday, July 14, at Doubleday Field.

Promoter Stu Green of Magic City Productions, Endicott, said he’s hop-ing for “a sellout,” the first since

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Hobbie, Raddatz DaughtersAvoid Tragedy At Marathon

By LIBBY CUDMORE

COOPERSTOWN

Twenty minutes.That’s the time dif-

ference between when Maggee Hobbie, raised in Fly Creek but now living in Boston,

left the Boston Marathon finish line, where she was volunteer-ing for sponsor John Hancock, and when two bombs detonat-ed, killing three and wounding 138, including dozens who had to have limbs amputated.

“I put the medals around their necks at the finish line,”

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The Freeman’s JournalSUNY Oneonta Presi-dent Nancy Kleniewski, right, shares a laugh with Yvonne Cum-mings, co-chair of the $1.25 million “Possi-bilities Full of Promise” fund drive, during a launch reception Mon-day, April 15/DETAILS, A4

School BoardPoised To ActOn NicknameCOOPERSTOWN

With students supporting “Hawkeyes” and

faculty backing “Huskies,” the CCS board was due to consider a mascot to replace “Redskins” when it met at 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 17, at the high school.

A poll of students, re-leased Monday, brought 167 votes for Hawkeyes, 150 for Huskies, 50 for Pathfinders and 32 for Pioneers. The faculty vote was 23 for Hus-kies, 22 for Pathfinders, 16 for Hawkeyes and eight for Pioneers.

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GIVING THANKS: Vol-unteers on committees and boards will be recognized at a reception at 5:30 p.m. Monday, April 22, before the regular Cooperstown Village Board meeting. Four dozen such volunteers provide some 600 hours a year of unpaid service to the com-munity.

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The penury of Bud Fowler’s afterlife – he was buried in an un-

marked grave in a Mohawk Valley potter’s field – is

reflected in the artifacts of his life.

There aren’t any.

Just ask Ashley Bowden, Los Ange-les; Ryan Leichenau-er, Sche-

nectady, or Nick DeMarco, Saratoga, the second-year Cooperstown Graduate Program students who put together an exhibit honoring baseball’s first black profes-sional that will be unveiled at Doubleday Field during the centennial commemora-

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Hero’s LifeIs ObscuredBy PovertyFew Artifacts RemainFrom Baseball Pioneer

Ian Austin/The Freeman’s JournalCGP second-year students Ashley Bowden and Ryan Leichenauer review the material they are incorporat-ing into a Bud Fowler exhibit that goes up Friday, April 19, at Doubleday Field.

By JIM KEVLIN

COOPERSTOWN

In all the dis-cussion about “’42,” the major

motion picture about Jackie Rob-inson’s experience in the Army that opened in the past few days, some-thing’s missing.

Rather, someone: Bud Fowler.

Sure, Robinson, recruited to the Brooklyn Dodgers by Branch Rickey in 1945, was the first black to break the color line and play Major League Baseball. But 68 years before, Bud Fowler, the first black to play professional base-ball, albeit in the minor leagues, was excluded from his livelihood when team owners, meeting in Buffalo, hatched a “Gentlemen’s Agreement” to make their teams exclusively white.

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Sandy Alles serves up a cup of Origins Cafe macaroni and cheese to Rich Mc-Caffery, Cooperstown. Diners waited in long lines for the food truck, which debuted last year at the festival.

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dant at The Otesega, is the recipient of the state Hospitality & Tourism Associ-ation’s 2013 Out-standing Roomkeeper of the Year Award for “exceptional service in the housekeeping department” in a hotel with 150 rooms or less.

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4 pm • Cooperstown Chamber of Commerce • 31 Chestnut StreetDedication of Fowler Way

Walk down Fowler Way to Historic Doubleday FieldMayor Jeff Katz

Elsie Rhodes, Pastor at First Presbyterian Church, CooperstownJim Gates, Library Director at Baseball Hall of Fame

Gretchen Sorin, Director of Cooperstown Graduate Program and Distinguished ProfessorCongressman Chris Gibson

Official MLB Historian John Thorn

Sunday, April 2110 am • Bullpen Theatre • National Baseball Hall of Fame & Museum • 25 Main Street

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FOWLER/From A1burial in an unmarked grave in a potter’s field in Frankfort’s Oak View Cemetery, Bud Fowler may be on the cusp of rediscovery:

• The first full-length biography of Fowler, born in Fort Plain in 1858 and raised in Cooperstown, will be published by McFarland & Co. in June: “Bud Fowler: Base-ball’s First Black Professional,” by Jeffrey Michael Laing.

• SABR, the Society for Ameri-can Baseball Research, has dealt with Fowler at some length on its website, www.sabr.org, and will hear a paper detailing his signifi-cance (by Village Historian Hugh MacDougall) at its 19th Century Conference at the Hall of Fame over the next few days.

• The Village Board is com-memorating the forgotten man who is arguably Cooperstown’s greatest hometown baseball hero

at 4 p.m. Saturday, April 20, at an unveiling of a street sign, “Fowler Way,” on the lane leading from Chestnut Street to Doubleday Field.

The village’s ceremony prompt-ed the New York Times to pub-lish a lengthy feature on Fowler in its Monday, April 15, edition. Bylined by Hillel Kuttler, it was available around the nation and world to The Times’ 700,000 print and 900,000 online subscribers.

Has Bud Fowler arrived?“Wake up, Hollywood,” said

Tom Heitz, the former Hall of Fame librarian who found early modern Fowler research in the late Hall historian Lee Allen’s files. “It’s a natural for a screenplay.”

Said Mayor Jeff Katz, who de-veloped the Fowler commemora-tion (he credits Hall senior curator Tom Shieber with the idea), “This has got to elevate his profile with

people beyond the SABR set. Where it leads, I don’t know.”

He’s heard National Public Radio may be sending a team from Boston to Saturday’s street-sign ceremony and – after The Times story, in particular – other national outlets may do so as well. “Re-gardless of how it ends up,” said Katz, “more people will know about Bud Fowler on Sunday than they have before.”

That “’42” was released at this very moment, raising interest in black ballplayers generally, is “a happy fluke,” the mayor said.

To Peter Mancuso of Philadel-phia, who chairs SABR’s 19th Century Committee, any recogni-tion Bud Fowler may receive is overdue. “For baseball histori-ans,” he said, “Fowler IS a major figure in baseball history. We understand a lot about the era, in terms of the segregation and Jim

Crow-ism. We also know a lot about these outstanding players who played in that era.”

If Jackie, why not Bud? “Time has obscured him,” said Man-cuso, “and that’s the simplicity of it.” Still, July 14, 1887, is “a day in baseball history that means the world to me,” he continued. That day, owners of International League Teams – Binghamton, Syracuse, Rochester, Buffalo and elsewhere – “officially drew the color line.”

Activities like Bud Fowler Day in Cooperstown and Laing’s full biography are just what’s needed to give Fowler the credit he de-serves, Mancuso said.

For his part, Laing, in an inter-view from his home in Santa Fe, N.M., believes Bud Fowler’s was a story just waiting to be discov-ered. But before the Internet gave researchers access to articles in the

black press from a century ago, “no one connected the dots.”

The biographer admires his subject’s ambition, energy and adaptability, likening him to Horatio Alger, the archetypical all-American story: Only the color of his skin kept Fowler from the American Dream.

The idea of a movie is a natu-ral one, said Laing. He told of one evening, halfway through his research, sipping wine with friends – one had directed movies – and regaling them with Bud Fowler stories.

After about an hour, the director said, “This would make a fabulous movie. I even have the opening shot.” She went to describe a scene: Shadow baseball, where people throw and bat and react, “and there’s no baseball.” Bud Fowler, captured in a dream. “That’s how I would open it.”

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‘I see possibilities full of promise: Today we dedicate; tomorrow we change possibility into reality.’

JAMES N. MILNE, SUNY Oneonta’s first presidentat Oneonta Normal School’s 1889 dedication

‘If you don’t know where you’re going, any road will do,”

Henry Luke, a proponent of community visioning when the concept was popular in

the 1990s – he visit-ed Otsego

County in 2009 – used to enjoy saying.

In a conversation during SUNY Oneonta President Nancy Kleniewski’s Mon-day, April 15, reception launching “Possibilities Full of Promise,” the college’s $12.5 million fund drive to mark its 125th anniversary, Paul Adamo, vice president for college advancement, made a similar point.

The fund drive is aimed at bolstering four priorities:

• Teaching, learning and research, to expand “experi-ential learning” for students and underwrite the faculty’s professional development.

• Scholarships, keeping a SUNY Oneonta education as a great value.

• Global connectedness, to plug in students in our small Upstate county to the big pond they must swim in to succeed.

• The Fund for Oneonta and Unrestricted Endow-ment, to give the local campus flexibility within the 64-campus SUNY system. (Adamo is also executive di-

rector of the Oneonta Foun-dation, which has developed a $40 million endowment, the largest in the system.)

Adamo’s point was that these priorities aren’t pulled out of a hat. They grew out of a four-year strategic plan-ning process Kleniewski launched on arriving in Oneonta in 2008. Admin-istrators, faculty, students and community friends of the campus helped draw the roadmap.

Without such a systemati-cally prepared plan – and this is Adamo’s key point – a fund drive “can become someone’s wish list.”

“Possibilities Full of Promise” is no one’s wish

list. It seeks to make pos-sible the campus commu-nity’s aspirations – and the campus community is a subset of the greater Otsego County community, which was tapped in creating the planning document.

That’s why everyone of us – not just the hundreds of SUNY Oneonta grads and employees among us – should contribute to achieving the $1.25 million goal.

•It’s likely no living

person has had as long and close an association with SUNY Oneonta as David W. Brenner, who arrived on campus as an undergrad in

1952, retired as an associ-ate vice president in 1993, and continues to serve on the College Council. (In his spare time, he was an effec-tive city mayor and chair-man of the county Board of Representatives.)

In a two-hour interview the other day, reflecting on the college’s history, two observations in particular shone through.

One, that Kiplinger’s Magazine this year ranked SUNY Oneonta as third on the list of “10 Public Col-lege with the Lowest Debt for Graduating Students.”

Those of us who lived through the bursting of the Internet bubble in 2000 and the housing bubble in 2008 can see the higher-educa-tion bubble looming. When it bursts, affordability will become ever more important in attracting top students.

Kiplinger’s ranking means SUNY Oneonta – its in-state tuition is an aston-ishingly low $6,896 this year – is well-positioned to benefit when the crash arrives – top students will seek us out – and the $12.5 million “Possibilities” drive will only make it more so.

•Separate from the

Kiplinger’s assessment, U.S. News & World report ranked the local campus

41st among “Regional Uni-versities – North,” so there’s quality here, too.

Which brings us to Brenner’s second observa-tion: In 1987-88, then-new President Alan Donovan determined to buck SUNY headquarters’ quantitative enrollment targets for a couple of years, to ensure that only students who had achieved qualitative targets would be admitted. Since students in seats means revenue, it was a gutsy decision; Brenner calls it the “demarcation.”

Kleniewski, a scholar/administrator, not just a bean-counter, has continued that quality focus – kaizen, if you will, to adopt and Japanese term – and it’s continuing to pay off. U.S.

News’ 41st ranking was the third-highest among SUNY colleges, after Geneseo and New Paltz.

Quality pays off in many practical ways, some sur-prising. For instance, a land-lord who rents to undergrads remarked the other day that, as the quality of SUNY Oneonta students has risen, he’s found less damage to his apartments.

SUNY Oneonta, of course, is not just a benefit to the City of the Hills. Its regional economic impact – through jobs, student spending and institutional spending – is huge. The su-perb Cooperstown Graduate School in Museum Studies and innovative Biological Field Station on Otsego Lake – last year, it began offering the nation’s first master’s in lake manage-ment – underscore the ben-eficial countywide reach.

Amid all the bad econom-ic news, SUNY Oneonta is great economic news. There are few investments these days that are guaranteed, but investing in “Possibilities Full of Promise” is one of them.

All of us benefit from SUNY Oneonta’s growing success. Let’s donate to ensure its continued growth and achievement.

Investing In SUNY Oneonta Will Bring Guaranteed Return

EDITORIAL

The Freeman’s JournalAt the Monday, April 15, launch, a brochure was distributed detailing the goals of “Possibilities Full of Promise,” SUNY Oneonta’s $12.5 million fund drive associated with its 125th anniversary.

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This week SUNY Oneonta launched the public phase

of “Possibilities Full of Promise: The 125th An-niversary Campaign for SUNY Oneonta” with the goal of raising $12.5 million in new funds over a four-year period. This initiative certainly is a commitment to bold aspirations. However, it also is a reflection on our history, which is as rich as the Oneonta community, itself.

The name of our cam-paign, “Possibilities Full of Promise,” recalls the words of James Milne, first principal of the Oneonta Normal School, the institu-tion that, with the founding of the State University of New York in 1948, became SUNY Oneonta. Milne, at the school’s dedication in 1889, remarked: “I see possibilities full of promise. Today we dedicate. Tomor-row we change possibility into reality.”

Although the college we know hardly resembles the one he founded, Milne’s vision endures. He would be proud that SUNY Oneonta has become one of the Northeast’s premier public colleges. Our first principal would find his commit-ment to students’ passions and potential has persisted since that autumn afternoon nearly 124 years ago when he proclaimed it.

In the spirit of fulfilling Milne’s inaugural pledge,

“Possibilities Full of Prom-ise” supports four critical areas, the first of which is scholarships. Since the mid-1980s the national average cost of attending a public, four-year college has risen at a pace that is twice the rate of inflation. Should this trend continue, it means that the cost of attendance for a child born today will be more than three times what it is now.

Increasingly, scholarships put higher education within reach of young people who otherwise would be faced with a choice between taking on debt or delay-ing college indefinitely. In the Catskill region, where economic uncertainty is a reality for many families,

this hits home. Consider-ing that one in 10 SUNY Oneonta students comes from Otsego, Delaware, Schoharie or Chenango County, additional funding for scholarships will give a boost to many families whose children attend local high schools.

Our second campaign fo-cus is teaching, learning and research. One of the reasons that SUNY Oneonta attracts such high caliber students is that we encourage under-graduate research in a way that sets our campus apart from others. Members of our faculty sponsor studies and projects across virtually every academic program. Students’ work often leads to invitations to professional

conferences that deepen their knowledge of their discipline.

Perhaps the most compel-ling argument I can make for supporting teaching, learning and research is our upcoming Student Research & Creative Activity Day. We host this event each spring to showcase the vitality of the research com-munity within our campus. This year, its timing coin-cides with the unveiling of our campaign.

I invite anyone who would like to witness the impact of teaching, learning and research to attend Stu-dent Research & Creativity Day next Tuesday, April 23. Held at the college’s Hunt Union Ballroom, it will feature over 100 displays representing the best in undergraduate research from the 2012-2013 academic year.

Next among our four campaign priorities is global connectedness. The stron-gest case for global connect-edness comes from a biol-ogy student named James Dewey, who travelled to the Peruvian rainforest last year as part of a three-week field course investigating dozens of different species of beetles, frogs and other animals.

Said Dewey, “From our studies we definitely had an idea of the diversity, but until you’re actually there, you just can’t describe it. Please See PRESIDENT, A6

NANCY KLENIEWSKILEADERSHIP PERSPECTIVES

Jim Kevlin/The Freeman’s JournalAgainst a backdrop of historic images, SUNY Oneonta President Nancy Kleniewski announces the $12.5 million “Possibilities Full of Promise” fund drive Monday, April 15, at a reception in the Hunt Union.

Jim Kevlin/The Freeman’s JournalYvonne Cummings and Jeff Strauss are co-chairing the “Possibilities Full of Prom-ise” fund drive.

Keep SUNY Oneonta Improving – And Affordable

Successful SUNY AlumniHead $12.5M Fund Drive

Two prominent alumni are leading SUNY

Oneonta’s “Possibilities Full of Promise” cam-paign:

• Jeff Strauss,’71, is president of the College Foundation board, and active in New York City alumni events, notably Backpacks to Brief-cases. He retired from Goldman Sachs in 2006 after 23 years, and is president of Butterfield Fulcrum, a hedge fund. He is married and lives in Franklin Lakes, N.J.

• Yvonne Cummings,’72, has served on the Founda-tion board since 2005, and is currently secretary. She was 2009 Outstanding EOP alumna. She is senior direc-

tor, revenue management, New York City Health & Hospitals Corp., and previ-ously was associate dean, New York Medical College, Valhalla. She is single and lives in Brooklyn.

THE FREEMAN’S JOURNAL A-5THURSDAY, APRIL 18, 2013 BOUND VOLUMESCompiled by Tom HeiTz from Freeman’s Journal archives, courtesy of the New York State Historical Association Library

50 YEARS AGO

April 10, 1963

200 YEARS AGOA deposed witness testifies to the aftermath of the battle

of Riviere aux Raisins as follows: “I certify, that the bodies of the Americans, killed at the battle of Riviere aux Raisins, of the 22nd January last, and the day after remain unburied, and that I have seen hogs and dogs eating them. The hogs appear to be rendered mad by so profuse a diet of Christian flesh. I saw the houses of Mr. Geraume and Mr. Godfrey on fire and have heard there were prisoners in them. The inhabitants did not dare to bury them, on account of the In-dians. The inhabitants have been threatened by the Indians, if they did not take up arms against the Americans.”

April 17, 1813

175 YEARS AGOMrs. B. Richter takes the liberty to inform the ladies of

Cooperstown and its vicinity that she is willing to give in-struction in all kinds of fancy and ornamental needlework, French embroidery, in Silk and Worsted; and in hair for rings, chains, &c. As she has the patterns of the latest fash-ions, and some of the best zephyr Worsted, she would with pleasure execute pieces of fancy needle work for families, if any should desire it. For particulars, please apply at her residence.

April 16, 1838

150 YEARS AGOThe War News – Bread riots have occurred in several

of the leading Southern cities. A refugee who left Rich-mond last Tuesday, and has just reached Washington, says that the bread riot at the rebel capital caused the greatest consternation among the authorities. The women were the heads of the families of the working classes, and were actually starving, many having been compelled to beg on the street. A repetition of the demonstration is feared, and every precaution is being taken to avert it. The effect upon the troops was most demoralizing, the men having become very clamorous, and demanding that their families should be fed. If to this state of things could be added news of the defeat of the rebel armies at important points, the leaders would soon find themselves surrounded by embarrassments and troubles beyond their control.

April 17, 1863

125 YEARS AGOPersonal – On Tuesday last a few of the personal friends

of Miss Susan Fenimore Cooper called to tender their con-gratulations on her attaining her 75th birthday in comfort-able health.

Mr. Charles R. Burch was a few days since called to New Berlin, to the deathbed of his beloved mother, and she passed away on Tuesday last. Mr. Perkins, the artist, has removed his studio to a pleasant room on the third story of the Bunyan block. He has several fine paintings on exhibi-tion.

April 20, 1888

100 YEARS AGOThe “Peters Polish” at Hartwick

was discovered in the year 1834 by Mr. Rufus Peters. He died in 1841. One morning, after eating an apple down by the brick yard, he rubbed his knife into the clay and noticed what a beautiful luster it received. He had the polish put up in small packages and sold about the country, and also sold it by the barrel in Me-ridien, Connecticut, and the Rogers’ Britannia Co. still buy their polish from Hartwick. The baseball enthusiasts of the vil-lage churches have been busy during the last week organizing their teams for the Sunset League which will furnish ball to suit the tastes of the most critical fan during the summer months. If the grounds are dried sufficiently, practice will probably begin next week. The managers and captains of the teams are: Baptist – W.M. Bronner, manager; Clifford Derrick, captain. Methodist – C.B. Johnson, manager; H.E. Lewis, captain. Universalist – E.D. Lindsay, manager; James Whipple, captain. Presbyterian – Robert Wood, manager; Bowne Davidson, captain.

April 16, 1913

75 YEARS AGOThe Cooperstown Union and High School is scheduled

to re-open Thursday morning of this week following the Spring vacation, which was extended two days when it was discovered that three members of the senior class, while on their class trip to Washington, D.C., were ill with scarlet fever in a hospital in that city. Since the return of the other members of the party no new cases have developed among

them according to Principal Ralph W. Perry. Patients confined to the Munici-pal Hospital for infectious diseases at Washington are Miss Marion Moak-ler, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Moakler of Middlefield Center; Miss Clara O. Parshall, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harry L. Parshall of Whig Cor-ners, and Robert Welch, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lee Welch of Fly Creek.

April 20, 1936 25 YEARS AGO

Joan Tripp is the new head librarian at the Village Library. “I do everything in the library from ordering books to repairing them, but I need my other projects. Life outside the library is also important,” said Tripp. Tripp says nothing unusual happens in small town libraries. “No maniac has ever come in here. People come for the pleasure of a library and for no other reason. You can keep your sanity in a library.” One of Tripp’s hobbies is bartending. “I really like bartending. It helps me meet different types of people I might not see in the library,” Tripp said. Tripp serves drinks on weekends to customers at the Lake Front restaurant.

April 20, 1988

10 YEARS AGORolling a 300-point score in bowling

is the equivalent to pitching a no-hitter in baseball, hitting a hole-in-one in golf, or completing a Hail Mary pass in football. While competing in the Wednesday Night Bowling League on April 9 at the Clark Sports Center, assistant ath-letic director and bowling alley manager Barry Gray rolled the third 300-point game of his career. “I’m just a small town type of guy who goes there and does what he does,” Gray said. “I’m never looking for the spotlight. That’s not my style.”

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Unrestricted giving is our final priority for “Possibili-ties Full of Promise.” Less tangible than the preceding three, it is no less important. Here is why. Higher educa-tion is a continually chang-ing environment. SUNY Oneonta, from its beginning as a normal school to its pursuit an endowment of over $50 million, is a fine illustration of this.

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Through philanthropy we honor our past and ensure SUNY Oneonta’s unique place in this community, now and for years to come. Like Milne before me, I meet possibilities full of promise with great enthu-siasm, and I know that our campus remains dedicated to changing possibility into reality. to changing possibil-ity into reality.

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To the Editor:During the course of

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The owners of the build-ing treated the fact that the tenants of the apartment upstairs may at any moment become roommates with a blasé indifference that needs to be seen to be properly admired. They assured me that the obvious massive structural damage was no problem and could be patched up and ready for me to move into by tomorrow.

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“From a museum point of view, you have to tell a narrative, but so many Afri-can-Americans don’t have that material culture,” said Bowden, who hails from Los Angeles.

“We don’t have his jersey, we don’t have his glove. We only have two main images to tell us about his life,” she said.

The two-panel exhibit will go up on Friday, April 19, during the Society For American Baseball Re-search’s (SABR) 19th Cen-tury Baseball Conference at the Hall of Fame. Saturday the 20th, the village trustees will rename the lane leading to Doubleday Field “Fowler Way,” then will reconvene at the exhibit site, where MLB Official Historian John Throne will deliver an ad-dress.

“It’s nice to see the village honor these unsung heroes,” said DeMarco. Leichenauer added, “We wanted to create a dynamic exhibit for the season. And we wanted to do something for Cooperstown.”

Fowler, born John Jack-son in Fort Plain on March 16, 1858, was raised in Cooperstown, the son of a barber. He was the first black baseball player in organized minor baseball leagues and played the longest, 10 seasons over 20 teams and 13 leagues, including managing the Page Fence Giants. “He played all over the country,” said Leichenauer.

Sixty-eight years before Branch Rickey signed Jackie Robinson, Fowler was play-ing on baseball diamonds “from Texas to Maine,” said Leichenauer. Fowler died Feb. 26, 1913, at age 54, and was buried in an unmarked grave in Frankfort’s Oak

View Cemetery until SABR erected a marker there in 1987.

Research establish-ing Jackson/Fowler’s Cooperstown link was done by former HoF librarian Tom Heitz and Village Historian Hugh MacDougall, and the CGP students were tasked with distilling that informa-tion into a visual exhibit as part of their graduate work.

“We got to learn about a legacy,” said Leichenauer.

“After looking over the research, we decided that our themes were ‘Talent, Passion and Odds’,” said Bowden.

The most difficult part, she continued, was putting together a visual presenta-tion with very little visual material. “The hardest part of the design was finding images to tell a story even without (individual) photos of Bud Fowler,” said De-Marco.

The trio used a map, old images of his teams and a timeline to give the informa-tion a visual component. “The timeline helps people understand the key points in history,” DeMarco said. “Not just in baseball history, but what was going on in the world at the time.”

Leichanauer and Bowden were in charge of writing the script for the exhibit, while DeMarco, with help from CGP Director Gretchen So-rin, designed the visuals of the kiosk. “We wanted to go with traditional baseball col-ors, but we wanted to give it a vintage, antique feel, so we went with a muted red, white and blue,” DeMarco explained.

The three will talk about how they put the exhibit together at 10 a.m. Sunday in the Hall’s Grandstand Theater.

“We didn’t just talk about making an exhibit,” said Bowden. “We did it.”

SAFE/From A1she said in a telephone interview the day after the Monday, April 15, bomb-ings. “They get water, they get Gatorade and then they get their medal.”

Also averting the bomb-ings was Melissa Rad-datz, whose parents are Don and Cathy Raddatz of Cooperstown: She finished the race at 1 p.m. in 3 hours, 3 minutes, although she was still in the area two hours later when the bombs hit.

At 2:30, Maggee posted a photo of her volunteer jacket on Facebook and left the finish line for a doctor’s

appointment at Brigham & Women’s Hospital. As she was driving, her phone began buzzing with text messages and calls asking if she was all right. “I told them, ‘Of course I’m all right. What’s going on’?”

She turned on the news and was horrified. “I’m pretty shaken up,” she said. “Boston always seemed like such a safe place.”

She got to the hospital, where the wounded filled the waiting rooms. “She told me there were just bod-ies everywhere,” said her mother, Connie.

“I got in just under the wire,” said Maggee. “The hospital was on lockdown. I was there from 4 to 7 p.m. There were SWAT teams everywhere; when I left, they had somebody walk me to the parking lot so I wasn’t alone.”

The family was panicked as they saw the carnage un-fold on the news, and with cell-phone service down to prevent remote detonations of other incendiary devices, it wasn’t until a nurse gave her a phone that Hobbie could call home and let her worried family know she was all right. “It was a hard few hours until we knew she was OK,” said her mom.

Melissa, a CCS graduate, had completed her fourth Boston Marathon, coming in 180 in the women’s race, and was recovering in a res-taurant a few blocks away when she started getting text messages and phone calls telling her that there had been an explosion. “I didn’t

hear anything,” she said. “But I still had friends on the course and they’d been pulled off.”

The building she was in went on lockdown for two hours, and later that eve-ning, Melissa was able to get a ride back home to New York, where she’s worked as a family nurse practitioner for the last nine years.

“It’s so sad,” she said. “The explosions happened when most of the runners were crossing, like the people who were running for charities.”

Before the race, there was a moment of silence to honor the victims of the Sandy Hook shootings. “27,000 runners, ready to race, all silent,” she said. “It set a tone for this race to be about something, and it’s upsetting that something would happen at an event so joyous, so celebrated.”

That morning, Melissa had texted her mother a photo of her and her dad, the Bassett physician, standing at the starting line. “When I heard about the bombing, I was just…” said Cathy, unable to finish her sentence as she held up the photo on her phone.

“It’s kind of unreal,” said Connie.

Though it’s still too early to tell if the marathon will be held next year, Raddatz knows that this will not stop her from running, and will be training for another marathon scheduled in the fall. “It’s heartbreaking,” she said. “But we’ll carry on.”

Maggee Hobbie, Fly Creek, at left in left photo, and Dr. Donald Raddatz and his daughter Melissa, were in Boston for the marathon. Their smiles earlier in the day belie the tragedy they would witness later on Monday, April 15.

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A08 THE FREEMAN’S JOURNAL THURSDAY, APRIL 18, 2013

FURTHUR/From A113,000 ticketholders filled Doubleday in 2004 for Wil-lie Nelson and Bob Dylan’s joint appearance.

Then, 13,000 tickets were sold. Green estimates 8,000-10,000 tickets can be sold for Furthur, which may be a sellout, given that por-tions of the stands have been closed.

“I think having these concerts is a huge addition to Cooperstown,” said Mayor Jeff Katz. “In a year when everyone’s worried about Induction Weekend, we’re bringing a band with a built-in following.”

If 8,000-10,000 people do show up, that would almost constitute a second Induc-tion Weekend, he said. “The people who follow The Dead aren’t like normal people who jump in their car and go to see a show.”

As with Induction Week-ends, said he supports allowing homeowners to open their lawns for parking. He hopes merchants will stay open later. “It’ll be an interesting scene,” said Katz. “It’s not what we normally see, but I think it will be a positive.”

Furthur was named for Further, the 1939 Interna-tional Harvester school bus Merry Prankster/novelist Ken Kesey bought in 1964 for a tour to promote his book, “Sometimes A Great Notion.”

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– Dorothy Louise Rosen-thal Field, 86, Hartwick Seminary postmaster for 38 years, passed away April 13, 2013.

She was born April 16, 1926, in Utica, to Percy B. Rosenthal and Mary Ot-taway Rosenthal. The fam-ily moved to Cooperstown when she was a young child, and in 1939 they moved to Bowerstown.

She graduated from Cooperstown High School,

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She married the late Wil-liam Byron Field Feb. 3, 1945, in Hartwick Seminary. He preceded her in death in 1998 after 53 years of mar-riage.

In 1955, she was ap-pointed postmaster of the Hartwick Seminary Post Office, located in the Field’s General Store, a position she held until 1993. For over 50 years, she was a member of the Milford Center Commu-

nity Bible Church, serving as a Sunday school teacher and church treasurer for many years.

She enjoyed tea par-ties, gardening, garage sales, traveling to visit her grandchildren, Christmas in July with her family, and especially a trip to London, England. Each spring her home would come alive with flowers of all colors that were enjoyed by many. She had a wonderful gift of hospitality that was demon-strated through the count-less meals prepared for the many guests who visited her home.

Dorothy is survived by her four children and their families: Heidi and William Darrell Risley and children Christopher and Jennifer; William and Lauri Field and children Libby, Evan, Han-na, Will and Abbi; Becky Wadsworth and daughter Rebecca; and Daniel and Barbara Field and children Amber, Andrew, La Rae, Auron, Timothy, Aimee, Angel and Rose. Also eight

great-grandchildren, broth-er-in-law George (Florence) Field, and several cousins, nieces, and nephews. Her sister Betty Vernini preced-ed her in death.

A memorial service will be in July. Memorial contri-butions may be made to the Milford Center Community Bible Church, the Hartwick No. 2 Emergency Squad, or the Otsego Manor Activity Fund.

Funeral arrangements are entrusted to Tillapaugh Funeral Service.

David Edward Stocking, 81; Former Air Force Sergeant

RICHFIELD SPRINGS – David Edward Stock-ing, 81, an Air Force staff sergeant known as “Bucky,” died Thursday, April 11, 2013, at Fox Hospital.

He was born on June 10, 1931, in Springfield Center, son of the late William and Dorthea I.

On Dec. 25, 1951, he was united in marriage with the former Virginia Tero in Saint Mary’s Episcopal Church, Springfield Center.

Surviving are his wife

of 61 years, Virginia; three children, two sisters, eight grandchildren and 12 great-grand-children;

He was preceded in death by two sons, William Oakley Stocking and Dusty Lane Stocking; a sister, Betty Searles; one grandson, David Stocking; and daugh-ter-in-law, Deborah Bunn Stocking.

Arrangements are entrust-ed to the J. Seaton McGrath Funeral Home.