‘Barn finds’: 159 Posts
Photos courtesy of the author.
It’s hard to walk through a swap meet without coming across at least a few antique tire pumps scattered amidst the old carburetors, tools and assorted parts. After all, in the early days of motoring, one of the most common jobs a car owner would be confronted with was repairing or replacing a tire, often while on the road and sometimes more than once, depending on the length of the journey. Every driver had at least one tire pump on hand, and often more than one back in the garage.
Gradually, technology yielded more reliable tires, and the leather cups at the heart of the operation of these pumps dried out relegating them to attics and junk piles.
But if you like old cars—especially those from the Thirties and before—or you’re a beginner wrench turner, I encourage you to purchase one of these tire pumps. They’re typically inexpensive (between $15 and $45 at swap, more at online auction sites), and because they were made to be maintained by car owners, they’re easy to work on.
I found the one here at the annual Rhinebeck Car Show and swap meet this past spring. It’s of the single-action type—rather than the kind with two or even three barrels—and 21 inches tall, with a base measuring 8 by 2 inches. The 1-3/4-inch O.D. cylinder is seamless and topped by an octagonal cap. There are no identifying markings on it.
Before buying, I checked to be sure that the cap could unscrew. While there’s very little with these antique tire pumps that could get in the way of refurbishing them, I figured that, with all the options I had to choose from, I might as well start with one that I could at least take apart easily.
As with almost every one of these old tire pumps, the plunger slides, but little to no air puffs from the connector, the rubber hose is dry rotting, and almost all of the red outer covering has chunked off.
I began the refurbishment by unscrewing the top cap and removing the plunger assembly, which included a spring and two large differently sized flat washers sandwiching the worn leather cup, and a lock washer and a square nut.
Vollstedt chassis 67-B today, restored to its as-raced-by-Jimmy Clark trim. Photo courtesy of Brady A. Schwartz.
On November 26, 1967, Jimmy Clark—Indy 500 Champion and two-time F1 World Champion—climbed into the cockpit of the yellow-liveried #21 Vollstedt at the start of the 116-lap “Rex Mays 300” in Riverside, California. It was Sunday, and it would be Clark’s last race in America before his tragic death at the Hockenheimring less than five months later.
The car, Ford-powered chassis 67-B, was one of two designed and built by Rolla Vollstedt and his team in Portland, Oregon, to compete in the 1967 Indy 500, which it did under the hand of Cale Yarborough.
Yarborough had taken over 67-B, after wrecking chassis 67-A in practice, then qualified 20th in it, with a speed of 162.830 MPH. During the race, he ran as high as fourth before a debris-induced blowout on lap 176 sent him spinning into the wall. A.J. Foyt went on to take the checkered flag, making it the third of his legendary four wins at the 500.
Almost six months later, at the Rex Mays 300—the USAC championship-car season finale—Jimmy Clark, who had been recruited by Vollstedt for a one-time drive, lauded 67-B as “A good motorcar, in fact, a very good motorcar.”
Clark (right) explains to John Surtees Vollstedt’s tunable rear wing—the first used in Indy car. Though originally skeptical, Clark changed his mind about the design after race day, and brought it back with him to F1.
Hand-formed by California Metal Shaping of stressed aluminum, and faired nose and tail with fiberglass, its body followed the trend in the Sixties toward monocoque designs. The 67-A and B cars were Vollstedt’s second generation of this type, the first having been sold to the Jim Robbins Company to fund this next iteration.
Instead of fitting an Offenhauser into the rear engine area—the formula Vollstedt is known for pioneering in American Indy car racing—he installed a normally aspirated 425-hp, 255-cu.in. Ford racing four-cam V-8 engine.
The “bundle of snakes” emerging from the top of the engine distinguishes the Ford four-cam powerplant from the Offenhausers of the time. Photo courtesy of Brady A. Schwartz.
Other teams at the ’67 Rex Mays 300 were also running Ford powerplants, but what Vollstedt did with his was unique. As the Ford engine exhausted topside, then back, the pipes provided a spot upon which to affix another Vollstedt innovation: a flat aluminum surface with a tunable upward-deflecting trailing edge—the predecessor of the now ubiquitous rear race wing. In addition, the collaboration between Clark and Vollstedt that weekend resulted in fitting contoured aluminum vanes on either side of the nose of both cars to increase front-end downforce.
The exhausts of the Ford “four cam” mount the innovative tunable rear wing; note slots for adjusting the kick-up length. Photo courtesy of Brady A. Schwartz.
During qualifying on the road course—amid a field of greats that included Mario Andretti, A.J. Foyt, Gordon Johncock and Al Unser Sr.—Clark took the Vollstedt-built Bryant Heating & Cooling Special to almost unimaginable speeds, very nearly pushing Dan Gurney and his Indy Eagle from the pole at his home track.
On race day, Clark, starting in second, with Bobby Unser and John Surtees right behind him, stole the lead from Gurney and held it until lap 25 when his exhaust began to smoke. According to Vollstedt, Clark had “…missed a shift, over revved the engine and tagged a valve.” Nevertheless, that brief showing was spectacular enough to cause Brock Yates to report in Car & Driver that Clark had driven the Vollstedt “faster than was thought capable by a mortal man.”
Three-time Indy 500-winner Dario Franchitti at the Brickyard’s centennial celebration in 2011, lost in the moment in the Vollstedt that Jimmy Clark, his countryman and hero, raced at the Rex Mays 300 in ’67. Photo by Marc Prentice.
Some devotees still wrestle a lump in their throats when they retell the story that Clark is said to have felt so bad about what he considered his error at Riverside that he went to each member of the team and apologized. In other versions of the tale, he shared the small purse and even the driving fee with them.
Ultimately, Clark’s teammate, George Follmer, in the #17 car (Vollstedt 67-A) would come up from 12th to finish sixth, while Gurney, having recovered from a spinout and a puncture, clawed his way past the likes of Foyt, Andretti and Bobby Unser, to reassert his supremacy at Riverside. National Speed Sport News, called it, “a magical day in 1967 when the best drivers in the world put on a race for the ages.”
Vollstedt driver George Follmer and the car’s co-owner Mike McKinney.
Ever the engineer, Vollstedt asked Clark what he could do to make the car better. Clark replied: “First, get a rev-limiter. Second, get a longer gearshift lever, so one can shift more aggressively. Third, more suspension travel.”
Vollstedt continued to make improvements to the cars, which went on to race for the better part of a decade under a variety of colors and numbers. In ’68, the rounded fiberglass rear-end fairing was traded for a ducktail design, yielding improved aero and room for the new turbocharger, which blew the Ford’s power ratings up from 425 hp at 8,000 RPM to 825 hp at 9,600 RPM.
The rear end and engine area were cleaned up for ’69, and the oval nose was made more rectangular, lowered and fitted internally with two small upward-sweeping vanes—all toward improving efficiency and increasing downforce. In the future, a full-fledged tail wing became part of the design. Occasionally, 67-B’s turbocharged, methanol-swilling Ford engine was swapped for a naturally aspirated, gasoline-powered Chevy small-block for use on some road courses.
Mike McKinney, current co-owner of 67-B, when he first met Rolla and Kurt Vollstedt at the elder’s shop 10 years ago. Rolla holds the trophy for design excellence that was originally presented to A.J. Watson for ostensibly pioneering the rear-engine-Offenhauser-powered architecture at Indy. But Watson acknowledged that he had gotten the idea from Vollstedt and in-turn awarded the trophy to him.
From their debut in 1967 until 1976, by which time they had both ceased appearing on the rosters, the nearly identical twin Vollstedts had been campaigned admirably, with six Indy 500 starts between them—one resulting in a ninth-place best finish at the Brickyard in 1969—13 top-10 Indy car finishes, including three top-fives and one second-place podium (67-B) at Saint Jovite/Mont Tremblant. The list of their capable pilots includes John Cannon, Wally Dallenbach, Larry Dickson, George Follmer, Gordon Johncock, Arnie Knepper, Art Pollard, Dick Simon, Carl Williams and Cale Yarborough.
After Vollstedt sold 67-B to Art Sugai late in 1972, it immediately suffered a crash in Phoenix that wrecked its suspension and crushed the left side of its fuselage. Tom Fox, Sugai’s chief mechanic, acquired the damaged car, along with a trove of spare parts—including an original wooden body buck Vollstedt had thought he destroyed.
Meanwhile, some Portland, Oregon, enthusiasts restored the 67-A car—likely unaware that 67-B still existed—as a tribute to Clark’s #21. This car ultimately made its way to Australia.
Chassis 67-B as it was stored in a machine shop in Washington state until 2007; though numbered 17 here, when it was driven by Clark, it was #21. Photo courtesy of Mike McKinney.
In fact, 67-B and its collection of parts had ended up safely stored in Ron Yurich’s Silverdale, Washington, machine shop until 2007 when Michael McKinney—a part-time National/Regional Club Formula Atlantic driver—and friends Ron Hjaltalin and Marc Prentice, purchased it with the intention of driving it in exhibition races.
Mike McKinney and daughters (back to front) Lauren and Meagan and wife, Lisa, co-owner Marc Prentice (left) and Al Unser Jr. (right). Photo courtesy of Brady A. Schwartz.
Still in its damaged state, 67-B also lacked its engine, gearbox and right-side suspension. The good news was that Rolla Vollstedt himself was able to confirm that it was indeed Clark’s car. At one point, as the then-89-year-old Vollstedt looked over the car, he chuckled, “Geez, I was pretty good back then!”
Rolla Vollstedt sits atop the wheel of his restored creation at his 95th birthday party in 2013. Photo courtesy of Marc Prentice.
Once the restoration got under way, which Mike explains was careful “to preserve as much of the original car, its construction and parts as possible,” it took approximately 15 months to complete. An appropriate powerplant—Mario Andretti’s Indy 500-race-winning Ford four-cam engine—was sourced from Al Unser Sr. and converted back from its turbocharged form by legendary engine builder Joe Boghosian. Many talented and helpful hands—including Bob Talbert, Rhody Hayes and Mike’s wife and daughters—worked to make 67-B come together in time for the centennial celebration of the Indianapolis 500 in 2011.
Over the shoulder of Mike McKinney in Vollstedt 67-B coming out of turn four at Indianapolis Motor Speedway during Legends Day 2014; Mario Andretti leads the group in his Indy rookie car. Photo courtesy of Mike McKinney.
When Mike was a kid, he had dreamed of racing at Indy with all of his favorite drivers. Little did he know that he’d get that chance at the 500, driving, of all cars, Jimmy Clark’s Vollstedt.
[This article is a “Vintage Racer” story appearing in Hemmings Muscle Machines, June 2015. For this article, and many like it, subscribe here.]
1932 Cadillac, said to be a prototype for a V-16 convertible Victoria. Photos courtesy Motostalgia Auctions.
In the 1970s, Jack, who prefers not to give his last name, moved from Wisconsin to the Texas Hill Country with his wife, in an effort to improve his failing health. With them, they brought a modest and Cadillac-intensive car collection, with the hope that circumstances would one day allow the restoration and further enjoyment of the cars. Four decades on, that’s not been the case, and this May, Jack’s ranch-fresh collection of five cars and a 1937 Kozy Coach travel trailer will cross the auction block in Indianapolis, billed by Motostalgia as The Barn Find Collection of Texas.
1933 Cadillac V-12 coupe.
Calling it a barn find is a bit of a misnomer, since the owner never lost track of the cars and will be on hand to supervise their sale. One of the more interesting lots is a 1932 Cadillac V-12 five-passenger convertible coupe, carrying body number one. Built upon the 370-B chassis and bodied by Fleetwood, the five-passenger convertible coupe, body style 5085, was priced from $4,995, making it among the most expensive offerings in Cadillac’s 1932 V-12 product range. In the depths of the Great Depression, such cars enjoyed extremely limited production, and it isn’t clear how many survive today.
1938 Cadillac limousine, reportedly purchased new by Philip Knight Wrigley.
Jack’s 1932 five-passenger convertible coupe was delivered new to a customer in California, and found its way into the hands of a marque collector in the 1950s. In the 1960s, it was cosmetically restored under this owner’s care, and then purchased by Jack in the early 1970s.
1923 Milburn Electric Model 27L coupe.
Another of Jack’s Cadillacs, a 1938 Cadillac Series 90 V-16 Fleetwood Limousine, reportedly once belonged to Philip Knight Wrigley, heir to the Wrigley chewing gum fortune. Befitting a man of his financial stature, the Cadillac was a special-order car, delivered with rear seating for two instead of the usual four (with jump seats).
1908 Reo Roadster.
Two of the more unique offerings were acquired from a lawyer friend in Wisconsin, who’d taken them in trade for legal services rendered. One, a 1908 Reo Roadster, includes both a detachable tonneau and alternative “turtle back” rear deck, while second is a rare battery-powered 1923 Milburn Electric Model 27L Brougham, built in the company’s final year of production before being acquired by General Motors.
1937 Kozy Coach travel trailer.
Fans of vintage travel trailers will appreciate the 1937 Kozy Coach, purchased by Jack from a Wisconsin farmer in the 1960s. The farmer’s intention was to enjoy the trailer on trips away from the farm, but it was said to have been used just once during his three decades of ownership. Under Jack’s care, which now stretches into nearly five decades, the Kozy Coach had also been used just once before heading into storage in Texas.
Motostalgia’s 2015 Indianapolis Brickyard Auction will take place on Friday, June 12, at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Indianapolis, Indiana. For additional details, visit Motostalgia.com.
UPDATE (16.June): the 1932 Cadillac sold for $286,000; the 1933 Cadillac sold for $55,000; the 1938 Cadillac Fleetwood limousine sold for $46,750, the 1923 Milburn Electric sold for $165,000; and the 1937 Kozy Coach travel trailer sold for $66,000.
* Yogurt would be pleased. Lego Ideas member NvdK suggested this sweet set of Lone Starr’s Winnebago, the Eagle 5, complete with a pair of secret hyper jets that allow it to hit plaid. It only needs about 9,000 more votes for Lego to approve it. Maybe in time for the sequel.
* While discussing opposed-piston engines with LaChance this week, he brought up OpposedPistonEngines.com (what a name!), a repository of many of the known OP engines, broken down into almost as many categories as there are engines.
* Geoff hacker this week shared the story of one Kellison-nosed Austin-Healey Sprite and its recent retrieval from decades of long-term storage.
* Finally, while a number of world’s fairs have put on auto racing contests or demonstrations, the 1915 Panama Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco actually put on a Vanderbilt Cup race. Gary Faules and Howard Kroplick tell the story at Vanderbilt Cup Races.
The record-setting 1961 Ferrari 250 GT SWB California Spider, on the Baillon estate. Photos courtesy Artcurial.
When the 59 lots from the no reserve Baillon Collection finished crossing the stage last Friday in Paris, auction house Artcurial (which still had 116 other consigned vehicles to sell) had racked up an impressive $28.5 million in sales, with four lots from the Baillon Collection breaking into the sale’s top-10 results.
The Baillon Collection’s bargain was this Singer Roadster, which sold for $14.5k.
Thanks to extensive media coverage of the “chateau find” Baillon Collection in the months leading up to the sale, interest in the Retromobile sale was high. Artcurial reported 1,600 registered bidders, with an estimated crowd of 3,500 on hand in the salesroom to witness the lots crossing the stage. On the affordable side, the 1987 Lancia Thema sold for €8,344 ($11,260) and the tired Singer Roadster sold for €10,728 ($14,477), but on the opposite side of the financial spectrum, the collection’s star, a 1961 Ferrari 250 GT SWB California Spider sold for a tax and fee-inclusive price of €16,288,000 ($21,980,656), setting a new auction record for the model and exceeding its high pre-auction estimate by over €4.3 million ($5.8 million, based on Artcurial’s conversion factor of 1.3495 dollars per euro).
This 1949 Talbot-Lago T26 Grand Sport coupe sold for $2.3 million.
The Ferrari wasn’t the only price record realized by the Baillon cars, either. The second-most valuable lot in the collection proved to be the 1956 Maserati A6G 2000 Gran Sport Berlinetta Frua, which set an auction record for the model by selling for €2,010,880 ($2,713,683), €800,000 ($1,079,600) over its high pre-auction estimate. A pair of Talbot-Lagos once owned by Roger Baillon also did exceptionally well, with a 1949 Saoutchik-bodied T26 Grand Sport SWB selling for €1,702,000 ($2,296,849) and a 1948 Saoutchik-bodied T26 Record Cabriolet reaching €745,000 ($1,005,378).
1936 Panhard et Levassor Dynamic X76.
Roger Baillon never realized his dream of starting an automotive museum with the cars he saved from the scrapyard between 1950 and 1970, but Artcurial reports that an estimated 15,000 visitors per day came to see the Baillon Collection cars on display in the days heading up to the auction. While most lots were purchased by collectors, at least one, a 1936 Panhard et Levassor Dynamic X76 coupe junior (which sold for €56,024, or $75,604) was acquired by a French transportation museum, ensuring that the dream of Roger Baillon will live on, if in abbreviated form.
This 1987 Lancia Thema, the Baillon Collection’s other bargain, sold for just over $11K.
Other lots in the top-10 at Artcurial’s Retromobile sale included a 1966 Ferrari 275 GTB Berlinetta, which sold for €1,988,000 ($2,682,806); a 1938 Mercedes-Benz 380 K Cabriolet A, which sold for €1,416,000 ($1,910,892); a 1968 Bizzarrini 5300 GT Strada, which set an auction record when it sold for €1,244,400 ($1,679,318); a 1957 Mercedes-Benz 300 SL Roadster, which sold for €929,760 ($1,254,711); a 1962 Maserati 3500 GT Spider Vignale, which sold for €858,240 ($1,158,195); and a 1961 Maserati 3500 GT Spider Vignale, which sold for €834,400 ($1,126,023).
For complete results from the Retromobile sale, visit Artcurial.com.
The 1961 Ferrari and the 1956 Maserati from the Baillon Collection. Images courtesy Artcurial.
In the 1970s, truck manufacturer Roger Baillon fell upon hard times, and was forced to sell an automobile collection that was over two decades in the making. As Artcurial’s Matthieu Lamoure and Pierre Novikoff recently discovered, only a portion of his holdings crossed the block, while the remainder were passed down through children and grandchildren. Now, the collection’s time in the spotlight has come again, and next February the French auction firm Artcurial will be offering the remaining cars from the Baillon collection at its Retromobile sale in Paris.
The Talbot-Lago T26 Saoutchik cabriolet on the right once belonged to Egypt’s King Farouk.
To understand the significance of the collection, one must first understand a bit about Roger Baillon, the man behind it. Baillon made his fortune building truck bodies, and, later, trucks. In the postwar years, this was a particularly lucrative business, and Baillon’s design for a secure and watertight tanker earned his company, Transports Baillon, a monopoly in this segment.
A Talbot Lago T26 Grand Sport coupe.
Baillon was a dreamer, too, who designed a cab-forward truck said to be the first in France, if not the first in postwar Europe. His passions extended to automobiles as well, and in 1947 Baillon designed and constructed a car of his own, the Oiseau Bleu (Blue Bird) roadster. It’s not clear why Baillon never pursued auto manufacturing as a primary business, but in postwar Europe the automobile was a luxury that few families could afford. Trucks, on the other hand, were essential to the necessary rebuilding of European infrastructure.
Another Talbot Lago T26, perhaps in better condition.
From the early 1950s through the mid-1960s, Baillon amassed an impressive collection of European automobiles, but these were not acquired with a collector’s (or investor’s) eye. Instead, the story goes, many were purchased simply with the intent of saving them from the scrap heap. Some were restored, while others were left in an as-found state, perhaps with a future goal of preservation in mind. In 1953, Baillon acquired a property that he ultimately intended to convert into an automotive museum, but his dream was never realized.
A Hispano-Suiza H6B cabriolet, in suboptimal storage conditions.
By the 1970s, Baillon’s once-profitable manufacturing and transportation business had fallen on hard times, forcing the sale of what many believed to be his entire collection. The 50 cars sold represented less than half of his holdings, and the cars held back (or the cars that failed to sell) would today be the envy of most automotive museums. It’s not clear how Lamoure and Novikoff made contact with Baillon’s heirs, but what is clear is this: the 60-plus cars at the Baillon property have been largely untouched for decades, and the family is now ready to part with them.
Out of its garage, the Ferrari appears to be in reasonably good condition.
The photos of the find are almost too incredible to believe. A 1961 Ferrari 250 GT SWB California Spider, one of 37 made, sits piled high with string-wrapped bundles of the French magazine La Vie de l’Auto, parked next to a dusty and weathered Maserati A6G Gran Sport Frua, one of three built. A Facel Vega Excellence shares carport space with a Talbot Lago T26 Saoutchik cabriolet, which reportedly once belonged to Egypt’s King Farouk. The remains of a Hispano-Suiza H6B cabriolet rest in a rickety lean-to with a corrugated tin roof, supported by a tree trunk nailed to a rafter with a 1 x 4. While it’s clear that the collection may have been assembled with passion, it’s equally clear that maintaining such an assemblage of fine automobiles is now financially beyond the means of Baillon’s family.
Artcurial’s Matthieu Lamoure and Pierre Novikoff pose with the 1961 Ferrari.
Selling the 60-plus cars in the collection will certainly enhance the family’s finances. The Ferrari alone, once owned by French actor Alain Delon, is estimated to be worth as much as $16 million in its current state, and that’s just one of the multi-million-dollar cars in the collection. Lamoure likely isn’t exaggerating when he refers to the collection as a once-in-a-lifetime discovery; like the Lambrecht Chevrolet auction in the United States, the Baillot Collection sale will likely be spoken of among collectors for decades to come.
The Retromobile auction will take place on February 6, 2015, in Paris, France. For additional details, visit Artcurial.com.
Mark Smith’s custom 1936 Ford roadster. Do you know who built it in the early 1950s? Photos by Mark Smith.
Mark Smith was looking for a 1932 Ford phaeton when the channeled 1936 Ford roadster seen here found him. Fifteen months later, he remains on a quest to find out more information on the car’s history, including the craftsman behind the skilled bodywork.
Mark’s quest for an unrestored 1932 Ford phaeton in Southern Maine had him knocking on numerous doors before leading him to a farm house in Cape Neddick, Maine. While the owner had no interest in selling, or even showing, the phaeton in question, he did ask Mark if he’d be interested in seeing a “very cool” 1936 Ford custom roadster.
As a collector of early Fords, ranging from a 1907 Model K through postwar examples, Mark’s interest is primarily in unmodified automobiles. Perhaps it was the seller’s enthusiasm for the custom roadster, or the fact that it was an early-1950s build, but Mark agreed to at least have a look. In his words, the car was “spectacular,” despite its heavy patina. A deal was struck to buy the car, and three days later, it became part of Mark’s collection. That was in September of 2013.
The car’s former owner had given Mark a few clues to go on. Inside the back of the car was a New York license plate from 1955, and the car had been acquired from a seller in Kingston, New York, as part of a multi-vehicle bundle sale. While the seller confirmed that the car had come from the Hudson Valley and had been sitting in a barn since the 1960s, he knew little else about it. A subsequent call by Mark to Mike Wolfe, the earlier owner, revealed only that it had come out of an estate sale, and that the family knew little else about the car.
Mark’s next call was to his friend Ken Gross, a journalist and author (and a former feature editor of Hemmings Special Interest Autos), who once served as director of the Petersen Museum in Los Angeles. Ken’s knowledge of early build street rods and customs is extensive, and after seeing pictures of Mark’s find, he drove down to see the car in person. Mark says that Ken, too, was impressed with the quality of the workmanship on the Ford, but couldn’t provide any additional information on the builder.
To get the car in front of a diverse and knowledgeable audience, Mark made the decision to show the car at the fall AACA meet in Hershey, Pennsylvania. Doing so would be far easier if the car were operational, so Mark pulled the frozen flathead V-8 and replaced it with a known-good 1959 L-block from his collection. The brake system was serviced, a friend provided a usable windshield and frame, and Mark’s bit of sculpture was transformed into a functional automobile that shared Kirk White’s tent at Hershey.
There, Mark learned the car had come from Mellenville, New York, and thanks to a Model A Town Car that had once been part of the same collection, he now had the name of the previous owner – Donald Cassivant. Mark drove to New York to meet with Cassivant’s sons, but they, too knew nothing about the custom roadster. For as far back as they could remember, the channeled Ford had been part of their father’s extensive, eclectic and unorganized collection.
Once, at Hershey, a passerby told Kirk White that he did indeed know the builder of the car, but wandered off before Kirk could get further details from him. He never returned to the tent, and no other attendees at Hershey could offer up additional clues.
As Mark describes the car, “This 36 custom is extraordinary… whoever built it was an experienced builder, and this was unlikely to have been his first effort as a ‘custom channeled roadster’ builder. The lines were fabulous. The workmanship was excellent. The panel fit was perfect and nothing was overdone. The 49 Mercury dashboard was superbly fitted to the car. As aspects were well thought out and superbly executed.”
That should produce a relatively short list of prospects, even if one expands the search radius far beyond New York’s Hudson Valley. Somewhere, someone must have the information that Mark has been so enthusiastically seeking. Are you that person? If so, Mark is offering a reward for credible information about the car; you’ll find his contact details here.
UPDATE (11 December): Here are five more images just supplied by Mark.
The “barn find” 1965 Corvette at Vicari’s Biloxi sale. Photos by author.
The buzz surrounding the pending sale of this 1965 Corvette 327 convertible was the talk of the auction. Rarely do such original Corvettes like this come up for sale, especially well-preserved, untouched and authentic examples like this one.
Earlier this month, at the Mississippi Coast Coliseum and Convention Center in Biloxi, where Vicari Auctions hosts its annual fall auction in conjunction with the Cruisin the Coast show, this mid-year Corvette was scheduled to cross the block on Friday evening. The speculation on the price that it would bring was quite extreme. Some buyers don’t find such barn finds that desirable, preferring instead restored cars, while others clearly see the hidden value in such originality. And the wait was on.
In order to stir, and maintain, interest in the old Corvette, it was parked to the right of the stage, in front of the seating area, where every bidder had a clear view of it, and inspections of its condition could be made quickly and easily. Even the dirt and dust that it had accumulated during its long sleep wasn’t removed, which helped reinforce the car’s barn-find status.
According to the placard in the windshield, lot number F909 was said to have been on jackstands in a warehouse, untouched, since 1975; even its Louisiana tags were dated from that year. Being a convertible, it featured both tops and was finished in Rally Red with a black interior. All numbers were claimed to match, and even its four-speed gearbox was original to the car. Unfortunately, there was no additional information about the engine, and which horsepower version it was, other than it being listed as a 327. Our best guess was that it was either a 300-hp L75 or a 350-hp L79.
Peering in through the open driver’s side window, everything was there and in decent condition, too. Although the odometer read 75,960 miles, the noticeable wear was less than expected. The seats’ bottom cushions were split and covered in a white film of mildew, the steering wheel was free of cracks, and the body was solid with perfect door gaps. Under the hood, all was present and accounted for, except that the original air cleaner assembly was missing. Clearly, this was a well-used, but well-cared-for car.
Chevrolet built 23,562 Corvettes for the 1965 model year, with 15,376 of those being convertibles. This wasn’t a rare Corvette by any means; however, mid-year Sting Rays have always been, and always will be, very desirable cars to own.
Considering its state, which we evaluated as being a #4-plus condition, its book value was somewhere between $25,000 and $40,000, and not a dime more. But when the gavel fell, it was a no-sale. The highest bid was $40,500, which seemed extremely reasonable, and at the high end of its current market value. However, as in many cases such as this, especially with barn find cars, sellers think they have gold, and more often than not, they don’t. This Corvette wasn’t one of those golden eggs. If this had been a low-mileage car, with perhaps 25,000 miles max, we would agree with the seller for holding out for more money, but not when there’s nearly 76,000 miles showing on the odometer. So back to sleep it may go.
Jon Gray with his 1937 Studebaker President. Photos by author.
Some see order where others see chaos, or majesty where others see nothing but disrepair. Jon Gray is one of these glass-is-half-full people, as evidenced by the 1937 Studebaker President he rescued from a 28-year garage slumber in 2012. A true barn find, extracting the Studebaker from its resting place required a chainsaw, a tractor and ample patience to remove the near-three decades of debris cluttered around the car.
Something of a local legend, the Studebaker was the property of a carpenter who’d fallen on hard times. Convincing him to even show the car took some doing, but Jon’s persistence paid off. Heeding the advice of friend John Royals, Jon bought the car not because it was a Studebaker with a rumble seat, but because it was a President, even though doing so required him to sell his 1936 Ford to raise funds.
Though once black, today Jon’s car sports car more oxidation than paint. He doesn’t seem to mind, and went to great lengths so show off the farmyard mud that still coats the inner fenders and parts of the frame. “We drove it to shows for the first year wearing a coat of dust, complete with raccoon prints down the windshield and across the hood,” Jon explained. It’s hard to top that for patina.
The Studebaker has since been cleaned, and Jon admits to vacuuming around five gallons of “mouse detritus” from the rumble seat area. He’s yet to pull the back seat out of the car, but is confident that more rodent residences will be uncovered when he does. The can of wax that Jon found stored on a shelf in the rumble seat compartment is still there, since as he explained, “it was a part of the car when we bought it.”
He confesses to driving the car home on its existing set of tires, but soon replaced them since the flat spots made the car shake badly. He’s changed a fan belt (with an original Studebaker replacement part), replaced a set of points, sleeved the wheel cylinders and the master cylinder, cleaned the carburetor and replaced the exhaust system, but that’s the extent of the mechanical refurbishing the Studebaker has seen. Jon even claims the spark plugs and wires are original, though we’ll bet that both have been replaced at some point during the car’s 77-year lifespan.
The 250.4-cu.in., 115-horsepower L-head inline-eight engine still runs like a top, despite the car’s age and its 73,407 accumulated miles. The three-speed transmission lacks a Synchromesh first gear, and Jon’s Studebaker didn’t come equipped with overdrive, but neither item dims his enthusiasm for the car. “It’s from the Art Deco period,” Jon said, “and it features a Helen Dryden interior.”
Though industrial designer Helen Dryden was an influential figure in both the art and design worlds, she still had to answer to then-Studebaker-design-consultant Raymond Loewy. Nonetheless, Dryden got top billing for the interior of both the Studebaker Dictator and the Studebaker President, which the company proclaimed in period advertising as “styled by Helen Dryden.” Once described by The New York Times as, “the highest paid woman artist in the United States,” Dryden reportedly spent her later years living in a $10 per week welfare-subsidized hotel room, and today is largely unknown outside of art and design circles.
I asked Jon if he had any future plans for the Studebaker that survived the scrap drives of the Second World War, and he shook his head. “We just want to drive it and have fun,” he said, “People really appreciate the way it is and love to see it.”
Judging from the attention it drew at last Saturday’s Cruise-In Spectacular, we’re inclined to agree with him.
So your heart says “Porsche,” but your bank balance says “used Kia?” Here you go. The seller describes this 43,000-mile 1974 Porsche 914 1.8 for sale on Hemmings.com as a barn find, and the Valvoline oil-change sticker on the inner door seems to indicate that the car has been parked for the better part of 20 years. We’d certainly want to have a poke around underneath, but the seller presents this as a solid car with only surface rust, and provides shots of the floor pans and both trunk floors, all still covered in their factory-applied Olympic Blue paint. With patina so much in vogue these days, why not simply take care of the mechanical needs that any car would have after a two-decade slumber, clean up the wheels, slap on some new tires and enjoy it as is? From the seller’s description:
Barn Find. 43K miles, Olympic Blue with Black interior. Targa top. 5-speed stick, console with gauges, very nice interior, seats, carpeting, dash, door panels all in great shape. Has original Blaupunkt radio. Solid body and floors – see photos. All rust on body is surface. Right rocker cover replaced, left rocker cover needs repairing. Car is 100 percent complete. Engine will crank but have not tried to start. No warranty.
Status: No Longer Available
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December 2, 2011 marked the 40th anniversary of the formation of the United Arab Emirates. In 1971, seven trucial states, now known as “Emirates” ( Abu Dhabi, Ajman, Dubai, Fujairah, Ras al-Khaimah, Sharjah, and Umm al-Quwain) joined to become the UAE.
Like July 4th in the United States, flags and balloons of the country’s national colors come out in full force (in the UAE’s case, that would be red, black, white, and green) and begin to decorate what seems like every surface area available.
Many storefronts and buildings are draped with meters upon meters of cloth in the form of the UAE flag:
I saw this photo from a distance during my morning run and grabbed my iPhone to get a shot of UAE flags suspended in the air by huge helium balloons:
I was going to stay home that day and avoid all the madness but during my run, I was intrigued by all the parachuting going on by Marina Promenade so later that morning, I returned with Scotch and Wee Scotch.
It was a nice 30-minute stroll from our apartment in Jumeirah Beach Residences to the staging area of the Sky Diving and Parachuting competition. Well, except for the part where Wee Scotch didn’t want to walk nor sit in his stroller and started to whine and scream.
Entrance to the viewing area – only yards or meters away from where the parachuters boarded planes and landed – was free.
I almost stepped on a few parachutes with their dangly ropes when I was too absorbed with staring at the sky and not paying attention to the ground in front of me. When we first arrived, we even had to patiently wait by the entrance so that a plane could safely fly by us and board more sky divers!
It seemed to be a well-organized event in that there was ample parking, food options (a cafe and shawarma stand), Wi-Fi in the restaurant, and clean bathroom facilities with attendants. However, there didn’t seem to be public covered areas but we managed to find a small shady spot by an event flag where we laid out our straw mat and had a picnic lunch of bread with cheese and sausages.
Wee Scotch loved seeing all the airplanes and helicopters in the immediate vicinity – he would scream, “Fei-gay up-up!” when a plane took off and “Fei-gay down down!” when it was landing. (“Fei-Gay” is Cantonese for airplane.)
He loved watching the parachuters glide through the sky like fast moving balloons. Here is a video of a parachuter practicing his landing:
There were sky divers performing group formations with the striking features of the Palm Jumeirah as the backdrop. We saw these stunts on a big viewing screen but the screen resolution wasn’t very good so it was hard to see the divers clearly.
I walked by some of the sky divers practicing their moves on the ground and at first I couldn’t understand why they kept hugging each other in different ways and tried to avoid staring at them. Then the AHA! moment hit and I realized what they were doing :).
Video of a parachuting stunt:
The 3rd Dubai International Parachuting Championship and Gulf Cup will take place until December 10, 2011. For more details, please visit the SkyDive Dubai webpage.
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Later that night, we went to Benihana’s for dinner and I’m just going to say that dinner was “okay” in case they decide to sue me if I write anything else in the negative.
On the walk back from dinner, the one-way street that is Jumeirah Beach Walk was even more congested than usual with all the usual weekend cruisers as well as with the National Day festivities.
Most cars were decked out with at least 2 flags (usually more) attached to windows, antennaes, and bumpers. Spray painted and silk-screened images of the ruling Sheikhs on car windows were a-plenty.
Even bundles of tulle in UAE colors were used to decorate car handles and roof racks:
As I walked past a Lambhorghini (also professionally spray painted in UAE colors) and two young boys spraying silly string and foam on every car they passed by, I happened upon this car:
Nothing too out of the ordinary until you see the hood…
…which was draped with feather boas in UAE colors. Interesting.

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The author of the book: Nelson George
Format files: PDF, EPUB
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Edition: Akashic Books,U.S.
Date of issue: 3 March 2015
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On the heels of a days-long publicity war, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has tabled his plan to limit the number of new Uber vehicles in the city.
Uber's New York general manager Josh Mohrer thinks Mayor Bill de Blasio's move to cap the car service is unrelated to a city
At war with the ride-hailing juggernaut, New York’s mayor wants to talk about ideology, not taxis.
Bad, unresponsive government policy created Uber’s business opportunity. Good government policy can take it away.
Tuesday's announcement also comes on the heels of the company reducing UberX fares in New York City by 20 percent -- a temporary
“Uber prices will still be higher," Lyft CEO John Zimmer told TechCrunch. "What does a price decrease mean when there is
In recent months, the company has taken steps to settle its disputes with authorities. The California Public Utilities Commission
The fare flare-up marks Uber's second New York headache in only a few weeks. Earlier this month, the startup pulled its taxi


If you want to install a Sea-Lect TruCourse Rudder on your boat and it does not have a standard mounting gudgeon, you will need the appropriate gudgeon. Study the photos and diagrams below to determine which model you need.
Four different styles to choose from
|For Flat Transoms||For Pointed Sterns|
|TRUCOURSE Rudder Gudgeon||Universal Bracket|
For Flat Transoms
For Pointed Sterns
TRUCOURSE Rudder Gudgeon
In the photo below, you can see how the rudder fits in the Flat Transom Gudgeon assembly. The two parts are mounted on our Imresboat as shown with four #8 round or pan head screws.
In the next photo a Pointed Stern Gudgeon is mounted on a typical production kayak (in this case a Phoenix Isere). The tangs on these parts are somewhat flexible so that adjustments can be made at the time you install the gudgeon on your boat.
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Settler who started Warwick Show lives on in family's memory
WHEN British pioneer William Spreadborough sowed the seed for St Mark's Church and the annual Warwick Show, he left legacy that dozens of his descendants continue to admire more than a century after his death.
Coming from all corners of the Australian continent, more than 90 Spreadborough relatives have commemorated history in the town where their ancestor is laid to rest.
Living descendant, Lyn Greacen said Warwick was a special place for descendants of William Spreadborough whose contributions to the region are still being enjoyed today.
Born in Surrey and shipped to work as a gardener at the historic Talgai station, Willaim was at the heart of Warwick's settler beginnings.
With 12 children and a brilliant mind for agriculture, the early pioneer helped establish the Eastern Downs Horticultural and Agricultural Society and organised the first event to showcase produce from the Southern Downs in 1868.
Living descendant, Lyn Greacen said the show was held in an auction mart on Palmerin St that was "profusely decorated with flags, evergreens and bushes".
Mrs Greacan, who has devoted years to researching the Spreadborough history, said William was a renowned horticulturalist who bred crops to suit the conditions of the Southern Downs in its settler years.
"I really think he was a man before his time. He was very enterprising," she said.
"They didn't understand the climate or soil and they were experimenting with different types of stone fruit trees in his orchard and wine grapes in his vineyard.
"He was always trying to find cures to different diseases."
Working as a rector's warden in the early 1850s, William helped build St Mark's church which still stands today.
Gathering at Kings Theatre, the Spreadborough family exchanged stories and learnt about their shared history on Saturday afternoon.
Lexene Spreadborough said it was a special time for the family.
"It is important to be here in Warwick," she said.
"I think people are interested in where they came from and their family history."

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The Body Keeps the Score (Self Help) [Audiobook] Description
The Body Keeps the Score (Self Help) [Audiobook] depicts the impacts of mental injury, otherwise called horrendous pressure. It exposes the tremendous power of our relationships both to hurt and to heal – as well as offers new hope for reclaiming lives.
Here’s what you will learn in this course:
- How trauma literally reshapes a human brain and body.
- Innovative treatments (such as neurofeedback, meditation, sports, drama, and yoga) that offer new paths to recovery by activating the brain’s natural neuroplasticity.


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CHICAGO - Today, Ford celebrates the 100th anniversary of an innovation that has had a great impact on manufacturing, industry and society as a whole: the moving assembly line. Chicago Assembly Plant welcomed a group of local media for a tour this morning to help celebrate the milestone.
Chicago played a special role in the conception of the moving assembly line. In a visit to the Chicago Beef Stockyards over a century ago, Henry Ford was so intrigued by its disassembly operation that he brought the idea back to his plant in Highland Park, Michigan. This is where he reversed the process, and in 1913, created the moving assembly line to manufacture cars.
This new process drastically increased the pace at which Ford vehicles were produced and drove down the price of each car, making them more accessible to the masses.
Reasonably priced cars changed the modern world as more people were able to enjoy the freedom of mobility. Their goals and dreams were no longer limited by geography or affordability as Ford’s broader vision included a $5 workday – which meant that for the first time, workers could afford to buy the vehicles they built.
Henry Ford’s vision for the Company was to build great products that serve people and move the world forward… and that vision still guides us today. “His core principles – quality parts, continuous flow, division of labor and reducing waste remain the foundation of how we at Ford innovate with today’s advanced, flexible production system,” said Brent Merritt, Plant Manager, CAP, while addressing the media.
Ford began operating in Chicago in 1914 in another facility on Wabash and subsequently moved to the current location in 1924, making Chicago Assembly Plant Ford’s oldest assembly plant in North America still in operation.
In CAP’s first year of production almost 90 years ago, a little over 4,000 Model T’s were built. Today with about 4,000 employees, the plant is building a vehicle about every minute.
Today, Chicago Assembly Plant is proud to build the Ford Explorer, Ford Taurus, Lincoln MKS, Police Interceptor Sedan and Police Interceptor SUV.
“We were happy to have an opportunity to showcase our great products,” said Raul Vasquez, door fitter. “The 100th Anniversary of the moving assembly line was a fitting milestone to have an event today.”


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The Greek sprinters Kostas Kederis and Ekaterini Thanou withdrew from the Olympic games on Wednesday after failing to attend a mandatory drugs test last week. The two athletes - who won gold and silver, respectively, at the 2000 Sydney games - proclaimed their innocence, but "it is hard to believe the pair's hard luck story about crashing a motorbike [soon after the missed examination]," said Glasgow's Daily Record. "The scandal has cast a long shadow over the Athens Olympics."
"For now the case is closed," wrote Sebastian Coe in the Times, but the challenge facing athletics is how to "keep one step [ahead] of the rubble". Despite the scandal, the sport is mostly clean, said Coe: "Science has caught up with the cheats ... and the athletes are less tolerant of their cheating peers." Germany's Der Tagesspiegel disagreed. "Sport, including the Olympics, remains riddled with fraud," it said.
The Swiss daily Le Temps said that the case was a vindication of the International Olympic Committee's zero-tolerance stance on doping, which makes cheats "so afraid of being banned from the games that they choose to withdraw without even having tested positive".
The fact that Kederis and Thanou had little choice but to withdraw, "despite their hero status in the country hosting the games, does indicate that the Olympic authorities are taking a tougher stand", agreed the Independent. But "few emerge from the muddled epic ... with any credit ... Greek sports authorities kept passing responsibility to someone else."
"The blatant hypocrisy and the foot-dragging - some say cowardice - was a huge embarrassment for the country," said Greece's Kathimerini. "The attempt to cover up the fiasco on the part of Greece's sports officials raised suspicions that the athletes were not the only ones involved in the scandal," it said. "In the end, Greece also appeared to be in the dock."
The only consolation was the "down-to-earth attitude of the Greek public", concluded the Independent. "Rather than defending [Kederis and Thanou] as unfairly persecuted and the drug-testers as 'anti-Greek', most Greeks have accepted the verdict with resignation and rejected their erstwhile heroes."

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To continue building upon my food expertise and to help my clients generate timely news, at the beginning of every new year, I pay close attention to the latest food trends and enjoy watching them blossom onto the restaurant scene and into our homes.
I’ve witnessed the meteoric rise of the humble coconut to being celebrated as the trending food of 2015; and that of the nondescript cauliflower, which left the depths of the salad bar in 2016 to land on upscale menus, everyday side dishes and paleo pizzas. I relish in observing the evolution of cutting-edge food trends into mainstream products. Not only is the phenomenon itself intriguing; I also appreciate what the sheer acceptance of these trends says about American culture.
This brings me to some of the hottest food trends of 2017:
1. Spicy Foods Globally inspired sauces are kicking up the heat. People are embracing not just the domestic, Texas BBQ or Nashville Hot Chicken-style heat. They’re moving beyond Sriracha to more exotic, palate-expanding flavors, such as gochujang, harissa and piri piri. The better educated we become as a society, the more we demand authenticity in our food choices. The fact that we have a zest to explore foreign cuisines demonstrates an inherent goodness. Contrary to what’s happening in today’s politics, Americans have become more open-minded, which gives me great comfort in a time that’s very tumultuous.
2. Stem-to-Root Cooking There’s a newfound willingness to prevent waste and celebrate the complete vegetable in its pure, natural state — not just the pretty parts. The discerning cooks of today are far more frugal in their approach, which communicates an overall respect for the land, the farmers who nurture it, and what whole food represents. This shows we are decidedly focused on the right things … things that matter. We’re stretching to our resources to ensure the long-term health of our planet—a true recipe for success!
3. Advancements in Plant-based Foods Developments in food technology are changing the face/quality of our food, and making new options possible, from plant-based burgers that taste and bleed like real meat to Cheddar and Provolone slices that stretch and melt like real dairy cheese. People have been eating vegan for years but more folks now understand our depleting food sources, and want to embrace sustainable options.
4. The Return of Full-Fat Foods With top nutritionists now weighing in that sugar and processed foods (not fat) are perhaps the real cause of the obesity epidemic, there’s a growing appreciation for healthy fats, including coconut oils, nut butters, salmon and avocado, as well as the comeback of full-fat yogurts, whole milk and good ‘ole butter. This shows we’re focused on what’s real and natural, and not all the negatives. As a culture, we’re more forgiving and not as obsessed and self-absorbed as we might have been years ago.
5. Convergence of Online and Offline Shopping In a world where convenience is king, online continues to reign. A recent survey by Prosper Insights and Analytics found that 1 out of every 10 millennials and Gen Xers bought groceries online in 2016, up 8.4% and 6.8% in previous years. However, it’s ironic that some online retailers are bringing the online experience back into stores. Take Amazon Go, the brick and mortar shop that empowers customers to grab what they find in-store while automatically deducting payment from their wallets! What to extract from this: Despite how busy we all get, people still crave human interactions.
Perhaps I hunger for a silver lining—to find positivity in a time of flux for our country. But if the trends mean something, we can take comfort in knowing there is inherent goodness and acceptance brewing in our kitchens, regardless of the philosophies and practices of the chef in charge.


The closing date for the role is 5pm on Friday 7th April 2017
Wigan Athletic Community Trust is looking to appoint an Administration Officer (Maternity Cover Fixed Term Contract 6-9 months subject to review) to assist in the running of its operations.
The position will encompass the following roles and responsibilities:
- Assist the Head of Community and Senior Management team with administrative duties.
- Provide excellent customer service while dealing with all external enquiries via phone, email and letter and ensuring messages are shared internally in a timely manner.
- Support the management team with the effective and efficient deployment of staff across all activities and projects.
- Support Project Co-ordinators to ensure that all participant registers and risk assessments are filed appropriately and securely in line with the Trust’s Data Protection and Risk Assessment policy.
- Lead on the administration of DBS checks for Community Trust staff and volunteers.
- Assist the management team with the creation and upkeep of registers for paid for activities such as After School Sports Club and holiday Soccer Schools.
- Provide administrative support to the Wigan Athletic Community Trust Board of Trustees including the compiling and distributing of minutes and reports prior to board meetings as and when required.
- Respond to and collate all charity requests that are received by Wigan Athletic FC including the donation of signed merchandise and other items provided by the Football Club.
- Help with the administration of the Latics in the Community match day lottery including ensuring all winners are contacted and receive their prizes in a timely fashion.
- Provide data entry support to project co-ordinators including the uploading of participant information onto the Views on-line monitoring and evaluation system.
The successful candidate will have the following skills and competencies:
- GCSE’s or equivalent in English and Maths grade A – C.
- Level 3 qualification in Business and Administration or equivalent
- Proven written and oral communication skills.
- Ability to build effective working relationships.
- IT literate, with the ability to use the full Microsoft Office package.
- Ability to organise own and others workloads and to prioritise effectively.
The salary for this role is £15,000 to £17,000 per annum depending upon experience.
If you feel you are the right candidate for this role, please download and complete the application form here and return via email to firstname.lastname@example.org or by post to: Human Resources, DW Stadium, Loire Drive, Robin Park, Wigan, WN5 0UZ.
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Closing date for applications is 5pm Friday 7th April 2017
Interview date: Wednesday 19th April 2017


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which may as well be abrogated, for the good of the Kingdoni, as they were first made for it. For instance, those Statutes that relate to Victuals, Clothes, and Places of Trade, doc. which have ever stood whilst the Reason of them was in force but when that Benefit, which once redounded, fell by cross Qccurrences, they ended; according to that old Maxim, Cero Sante ratione Legis, cesjat Lex. "But this cannot be said of Fundamental Laws, til Houses stand without their Foundations, and English Mankind wholly cease to be'; which brings close upon tho point.
Sect, 9. There is not any Country, that has more conftantly express'd her Care and 'deep Sollicitude, to thç prefervation of her fundamental Laws, than the English Nation. And tho the Evil of some particular Times and Persons have endeavour'd an utter Abolition of those excellent Fundamentals, which we have before defined and defended from any jaft reason of Revolution ; yet God Almighty, who is always
1 concern'd to avenge the Cause of Justice, and those excellent good Laws by which it is upheld, has by his Providence befuold their Contrivances, and baffled their attempts, by bringing their Designs to nought, and their Persons frequently to condign Punishment and Disgrace. Their 'Age' no Antiquary living can affyre us, 'unless they say, as old as Reason it felf; but our own Authors are not lacking to inform us, that the Liberties, Properties, and Privileges of the English Nation are yery antient.
Sett, 1o. For Horn, in his Mirror of Justice, (writ in Edward the First's time) fol. 1. tells us, " That after God had abated
the Nobility of the Britons, he did deliver the Realm to mert
more humble and simple, of the Countries adjoining; to “ wit, the S.zxons, who came from the parts of Almeign to ” conquer this Land; of which Men there were forty Sove « şeigns, which did rule as Companions, and those Princes “ dii call this Realm England, which before was named the ý Greater Britain." These, after great Wars, Tribulations, & and Pains, by long time' sufferd, did chuse a King to “ reign over them, to govern the People of God, and to « maintain and defend their Perions, and their Good in “ quiet, by the Rules of Right. And at the beginning they “ did calls him to swear to maintain the Holy Chriftian « Faith, and to guide his People by Right, with all his
Power, without respect of Persons, and to observe the & Laws, And after, when the Kingdom was turn d inco an
Heritage, King Alfred that govern this Kingdom about
an hunired leventy one years before the Conqueft, did a cause the Great Mein of the Kingdom to affemble ai
“ London, and there did ordain for a perpetual Usage, That “ twice in the Year, or ofcner, if need should be, in time of « Peace, they should affemble at London in Parliament, for
the Government of God's People, that men might live “ in quiet, and receive Right by certain Usages and Holy
<< In which Parliament (faith our Author) the Rights and " Prerogatives of the Kings and of the Subjects are diftin
guilh d and set apart; and particularly by him express’d, too tedious here to insert : amongst whicń Ordinances we find,“ That no man should be imprison’d, but for a capital « Offence. And if a man should dețain another in Prison,
by colour of Right (where there was none) till the Party « imprison'd dy'd; he that kept him in Prison should be “ hefd guilty of Murder, as you may read page 33.' And pag. 36. “ He is declar'd guilty of Homicide, by whom a "Man shall die in prison, whether it be the Judges, that shall “ too long delay to do a Man right, or by Cruelty of Goalers, or “ suffering him to die of Famine; or when a Man is adjudg’d a to do penance, and shall be surcharg'd by his Goaler with “ Irons, or other pain, wherehy he is depriv'd of his life. And p. 149. “ That by the antient Law of England, it was
Feloniy to detain a màn in prison, after suficient Bail of. “ fer'd, where the Party was plevisable ; every Person was
plevisable, but he that was appeal'd of Treason, Murder,
Robbery, or Burglary, pag. 35. None ought to be put in * coinmon Prisons, but only such as were Attainted, or prin. “ cipally Appealed or Indi&ted of Tume capital Offence, or At“ tainted of false or wrongful Imprisonment. So tender have of the antient Laws and Conftitutions of this Realm been of "the Liberty of their Subjects Perfons, that no man ought to “ be imprison'd, but for a Capital Offence, as Treason, Murder,
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Seit. 11. Nor is Lambard short, in his excellent Translation of the Saxon Laws, from King Ina's time 712. to Henry III. 1100. in describing to us the great Obligation, and strong Condition the People were wont to put upon their Kings, to observe the antient fundamental Laws, and free Customs of this Land; which were handed down from one Age to another. And in the 17th Chapter of 'Edward the Confeffor's Laws, the mention there made of a King's Duty is very remarkable, That if he break his Oath, or perform'd not his Obligation, nec nomen Regis in eo conftabit, 'The same Lambard further tells us, That however any may affirm William of Normandy to be a Conqueror, he was receiv'd by the People as Edward's Succeffor, and by folemni Oath taken, 'to maintain unto them the
fame Laws, that liis Kinsman Edward the Confeffor did. This Doctrine remaind in the general unquestion’d, to the Reign of King Jobn, who imperiously thought that Voluntas Regu, and not Salus Populi, was Suprema Lex; or the King's Will was the Supreme Law, and not the People's Preserva. tion: till the incens'd Barons of that time becook themselves to a vigorous Defence of their antient Rights and Liberties, and learnt him to keep those Laws by a due Restraint and timely Compulsion, which his former Invasion of them evidenc'd to the World he would never have done willingly.
Sect. 12. The Proposals and Articles of Agreement, with the Pledges given to the Barons, on the behalf of the People by the King, were confirm'd in Henry III's time, bis Son and Succeffor; when the abused, slighted, and disregarded Laws by bis Father, were thought fit to be reduc'd to Record, that the People of England might not for ever after be to seek for a written
a recorded Law to their Defence and Security : for, Mifera Servitus eft ubi Jus est vagum aut incognitum. And so we enter upon that Grand Charter of Liberty and Privilege, in the Cause, Reason, and End of it.
Sect. 1. We shall first rehearse it, so far as we are concernd, (with the Formalities of Grant and Curse) and shall then fay soinething as to the Cause, Reason, and End of it.
A Rehearsal of the Material Parts of the Great
Charter of England.
ENRT, by the Grace of God, King of England, &c. To
all Archbishops, or Earls, Barons, Sheriffs, Proroft, Oncers, and to all Bailiffs, and our faithful Subjects, i do
shall see this present Charter, Greeting. Know 9 H. 3. con- ye that we, unto the Honour of Almighty firmod 28 E.3. God, and for the Salvation of the Souls of our Progenitors, and our
Succeffors, Kings of England, to the Advancement of Holy Church, and Amendment of our Realm, of our mere and free Will have given and granted to all Archbithops, doc. and to all Freemen of this our Realm, these Liberties under-written, to be holden and kept in
this our Realm of England for evermore. Chap.s. The
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A Freeman shall not be a merced for a small Chap. 14. Fault, but after the quantity of the Fault. And for a great Fault, after the manner thereof, saying to him his Contenements or Free-hold. And a Merchant likewife shall be amerced, saving to him his Merchandize ; and none of the said Amercements mill be affefs'd, but by the Oath of good and honeft men of the Vicinage.
No Freeman shall be taken or imprisoned, nor Chap. 29. be diffeized of his Freehold, or Liberties, or free Cuftoms, or be outlaw'd, or exild, or any other ways destroy’d; nor we shall not pass upon him, nor condemn him, but by lawful Judgment of his Peers, or by the Law of the Land. We shall jell to no man, we shall deny nor defer to no Man either Justice or Right.
And to all these Cuftoms, Liberties aforesaid, which we have granted to be holden within this our Realm, as much as apperta ineth to us and our Heirs, we shall observe; and all Men of this our Realm, as well Spiritual as Temporal (as much as in them is) shall observe the same against all Persons in likewise. And for this our Gift, and Grant of tese Li. berties, and for other contain’d in our Charter of Liberties of our For:ft, the Archbishops, Bishops, Abbots, Priors, Earls, Barons, Knigiits, Freeholders, and other our Subjects, have given unto us the fifteenth parts of all their Movables: And we have granted unto them on the other part, That neither We, nor our Heirs shall procure or do any thing whereby the Liberties in this Charter contain'd shall be infring’d or brc. ken ; and if any thing be procur’d by any person contrary to the Premises, mall be had of no force or effect. There being. Witneff.s, Boniface Archbishop of Canterbury, &c. We ratifying and approving those Gifts and Grants aforesaid, confirm and make firong all the same, for us and our Heirs perpetually, and by the Tenor of these Presents do renew the Jame willingly; and granting for us and our Heirs, that this Charter, in all and lingular its Articles, for evermore shall he stedfastly, firmly, and inviolably obferv'd. And if any Article in the same Charter contain'd, yet hitherto peradventure hath not been observ'd nor kept, we will, and hy our *Authority Royal command, from henceforth firmly they be obsery'd. Witness, dc.
The Sentence of Curse given by the Bijbops, with
the King's Confeni, against the Breakers of the Great Charter.
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great Hall of the King at Westminster, in the presence, and by the Confent of the Lord Henry, by the Grace of God, King of England, and the Lord Richard, Earl of Cornwal, his Brother ; Roger Bigot Earl of Norfolk, Marsal of England; Humphry Earl of Hereford; Henry Earl of Oxford; John Earí Warren ; and other Estates of the Realm of England: We Boniface, by the mercy of God, Archbishop of Canterbury, Primate of England, F. of London, H. of Ely, S. of Worcester, E. of Lincoln, W. of Norwich, P. of Hereford, W. of Salisbury, w. of Durbam, R. of Excester, M. of Carlifle, W. of Bath, E. of Rochefter, T. of St. Davids ; Bishops, apparel'd in Pontificals, with Tapers burning, against the Breakers of the Church's Liberties, and of the Liberties and other Customs of this Realm of England; and namely these which are contain'd in the Charter of the common Liberties of England, and Charter of the Forest, have denounc'd Sentence of Excommunication in this form, by the Authority of Almighty God, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, doc. of the blessed A poftles Peter and Paul, and of all Apoftles, and of all Martyrs, of blessed Edward King of England, and of all the Saints of Heaven ; We excommunicate and accurse, and from the Benefits of our holy Mother the Church we fequefter all those that hereafter willingly and maliciously deprive or spoil the Church of her Right, and all those that by any craft or willingness, do violate, break, diminish, or change the Church's Liberties, and free Cuftoms containd in the Charters of the common Liberties, and of the Forest, granted by our Lord the King to Archbishops, Bishops, and other Prelates of England, and likewise to the Earls, Barons, Knights, and other Freeholders of the Realm. And all that fecretly and openly, by deed, word, or couhsel do make Sta. tutes, or observe them being made, and that bring in Cuftoms to keep them, when they be brought in, againft the said Liberties, or any of them, and all those that shall presume to judg against them; and all and every such Person, before. mention'd, that wittingly thall commit any thing of the

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Zimbabwe reports first coronavirus caseChristian Fernsby ▼ | March 21, 2020
Zimbabwe announced yesterday the country's first coronavirus case.
Health in Zimbabwe Health Minister Obadiah Moyo
Topics: Zimbabwe coronavirus
"This evening, Friday, March 20, 2020, the National Reference Laboratory at Sally Mugabe Central Hospital confirmed that a suspected case of COVID-19 has tested positive,” Moyo said in a televised address. "This is the first COVID-19 in Zimbabwe,"
Zimbabwe, earlier this week, said a British tourist who visited Victoria Falls but tested positive for the virus known as COVID-19 upon return to the U.K.
As part of measures against the virus, Zimbabwe closed schools, banned public gatherings and imposed travel restrictions. ■

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Year 3 Benchball
Well done to the 10 year 3 boys and girls that finished in 2nd place at the Plumstead Manor benchball competition on Wednesday 1st February. The team played 4 matches winning 2 (4-1 and 4-0), drawing 1(3-3) and losing 1 (1-0). The way the team passed and moved the ball was excellent to watch and they all should be very proud of their efforts.
Well done team!
Year 5/6 Greenwich Football Tournament
On Tuesday 7th February the year 5/6 football team travelled to Meridian sports ground to compete in the annual Greenwich football tournament. The team played 4 games in the morning winning 1, drawing 2 and losing 1. All the games where extremely tight but Timbercroft just couldn’t find there scoring touch. After lunch the team had four more fixtures, winning 3-0, 4-1 and 2-0 and losing one game 1-0. It was safe to say after lunch the team had found their scoring touch and that showed in their results, with the team eventually finishing joint 1st in their group. The team where excellent through out and played some wonderful football.
Year 2 Multi-sports
A massive well done goes to the 12 year 2 children who won the multi sports competition at Plumstead Manor on Friday 3rd March. The children competed in six different events such as skipping, balancing and running. Well Done team!!
Year 5/6 Sports Hall Athletics Finals
A big congratulations goes to the 17 year 5 and 6’s that represented Timbercroft at the Greenwich sports hall finals. The team finished 4th overall which was a massive achievement as 32 schools entered the athletics competition. Some excellent scores were recorded by the team, including first place in the boys 1x1 lap relay, 2nd and 3rd place in the girls and boys 2x2 relay and 2nd place in the boy’s javelin.
Year 6 Greenwich Primary School Tag Rugby Tournament
In the last event of 2016 9 year 6’s represented Timbercroft at the annual Greenwich tag rugby tournament. In the morning the team played 3 seeded games winning 4-0, drawing 1-1 and losing 2-0 eventually finishing 2nd in group B. After all the morning games had finished the scores were counted and Timbercroft would be in group B in the afternoon and play against three other schools who finished 2nd in there group.
After lunch the second round of games started and every game the team played was very even and the scores showed how close the games were. The team won their first game 2-1, followed by a 1-0 loss and their last game ended 1-1.
It was an excellent effort by the team who show great team work throughout.
Well done George, Robert, Nicole, Adjoa, Toromo, Daniel B, DJ, Jannatul and Michelle.
Year 6 Cross Country
Congratulations to the 8 year 5/6 pupils that competed in the Plumstead manor cross country. It was an excellent effort by all 8 pupils who ran and finished the 900 meter course. The results showed how well they all ran, with the boys finishing 3rd and the girls finishing 4th overall.
Year 5/6 Sports hall Athletics
On Thursday 24th November 18 pupils from year 5/6 travelled to Eltham hill to compete in the Greenwich sports hall athletics competition. The boys and girls where picked to represent Timbercroft in different track and field events. The aim for the children was to finish in the top two, if they could do this they would make the finals in January and have the chance to represent Greenwich in the London youth games. The afternoon started really well with the girls winning the obstacle race followed by the boys winning the 2+2 relay. Once the track events had been completed it was over to the field events, where Timbercroft scored some impressive results; Robert 1st in javelin, Shae and Ayras 1st and 2nd in speed bounce, Nicole and Ola 2nd in Standing long jump, Jannutel and Ayras 1st and 2nd in vertical jump.
The score’s had been counted had Timbercroft done enough?
In second place … Timbercroft!!
Congratulations to the athletics team!
The finals will be held at John Roan on Wednesday 25th January 2017.
Year 4 Tug of War Competition.
Well done to the 8 year 4 boys and girls that competed at the Plumstead manor tug of war competition on Friday 11th November. The pupils played 4 matches winning 2 and losing 2, eventually finishing 3rd overall. The team showed great determination and character.


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Samantha M. Eckert
Vermont College of Fine Arts, 2015, MFA in Visual Art
Vermont Studio Center, 2012, Artist residency
Vermont Studio Center, 2011, Artist residency
The Institute of American Indian Arts, 2011, Certification in Museum Studies
Anderson Ranch art center, 2010, Artist residency
A little bit about the work I make: I regularly return to building structures with scorched popsicle sticks and hot glue. The scorched popsicle stick is a material that is versatile, it's inherent nature enables affect in many forms. In addition to popsicle stick towers, I build objects which hang in space or mount on a wall. Objects which teeter somewhere between the real and the abstract, between memory and shadow. Ghostly structures made of chaos and order, welded together by webs of glue which capture a prey of light and imagination. In my mind the towers signify ruins of a city, or the bones of ancestors. My intention while making this work is to provide a suggestion of comfort and a shelter of impermanence, similar to a veil which reveals and conceals.
Artist Statement: My work continues to be inspired by work made by my late Italian/Middle Eastern mother and grandmother. Their handwork produced crocheted tablecloths and bedspreads, knitted sweaters and blankets. These objects they’ve created remain, long after they've departed. Their imaginations embedded into the fibers. Their work, treasures which have become to me heirloom, artifact, relic. Like theirs, my hands also sew, paint, knit, and build structures. Hand work driven by muscle memory, their need to make passed on to mine. I am interested in the space between real and abstract, between my memory and the residual memory from my ancestors. By exploring these shadows, a history that is both global and personal, a story emerges.
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Robert ReitzfeldNew York
Robert Reitzfeld was an art director at several prominent advertising agencies prior to forming his own. His commercials are in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art. He has won over 500 creative awards.
Growing up poor in the Bronx in the '40s, the closest I ever got to art was seeing the work of cartoonists, either in the daily newspaper or in comic books. So comics were, in my formative years, my art history.
In the case of the "Untitled" abstract/comic paintings, the goal was twofold. In my ongoing desire to legitimize the cartoon, I wondered about combining two disciplines, the so called High Art and the so called low art, and seeing how, and if, they could live together... combining the seriousness of high art with the crassness and humor of low art.
Secondly, I was interested in the combination of chance alongside that of precision. While some control is possible (color, pressure on a squeegee etc.), much of the outcome of the backgrounds in these works are left to a strong design sense and chance. Meanwhile, the work of the cartoon fragment is very deliberate and precise. I find the two living together very comfortably, and the humor in these works to be rewarding, while punching a little hole in the pretentiousness of some of today's contemporary art.
The "Landskape" series is the first group of works to come out of my studio after 9/11. I live just 5 city blocks from where the #7 building fell, and witnessed the entire event through my livingroom window. It took 4 months before I could even think of making any work. When I finally returned to the studio, I had to make large, colorful, happy pictures to enable me to counter the deep sadness and depression I was feeling. These paintings are inspired by the desert backgrounds that the great George Herriman used in his "Krazy Kat" comics from the teens through the 1930s.
As I worked on this series, I came to the realization that as happy and cheerful as these paintings feel, they are also about loss, and of course, hope. I realized that my removal of the characters, along with the total emptiness of the landscape symbolized the tremendous loss of life and the horrendous destruction. Yet there is a joyousness in the humor, color and composition that offers hope. These works were, for me, cathartic, expressing what I could not express with words or tears.


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The business said it would stop selling Russian products while JD Sports is pulling out of the country.
Sainsbury’s is renaming chicken kievs to match the Ukrainian spelling of the capital city, in the wake of the russo invasão, while John Lewis and [object Window] are removing Russian products from shelves.
The supermarket chain said it would start rolling out new packaging in the coming weeks using chicken kyiv, rather than the Russian spelling kiev.
It will also stop selling all products that are sourced purely from Russia – Russian standard vodka and Karpayskiye black sunflower seeds.
Waitrose also said that it will remove a Russian vodka from its shelves while John Lewis will no longer sell a line of pizza oven pellets which it sources from the country.
O John Lewis Partnership, which includes Waitrose, adicionado: “We’re working with our suppliers to review products that have components of Russian origin and will be seeking to mitigate further exposure to the region.”
It comes after Russian President Vladimir Putin last week launched a full-scale and unprovoked invasion of Ucrânia.
The attack has led to biting sanctions from Europe, the US and others, and western companies are withdrawing en masse from Russia in response.
“We stand united with the people of Ukraine. We have reviewed our product range and have decided to remove from sale all products that are 100% sourced from Russia,” Sainsbury’s said.
On Friday JD Sports also announced plans to withdraw from Russia, following other clothing retailers such as Asos and Boohoo.
The move is largely symbolic as the business only makes 0.05% of its sales in Russia through its website and wholesale partners.
It also has no sites or employees in either Russia or Ukraine.
“Everyone at JD is shocked and deeply concerned by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and expresses the utmost sympathy for all Ukrainians,” the company said.
Adicionou: “The conflict in Ukraine continues to generate grave concern and we look forward to reconciliation and the return to peace within the region.”

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Minnesota DNR reports at least 32 wolves killed on opening day of season
The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources reports that at least 32 wolves have been killed on the opening day of the state’s first managed wolf hunt.
That total listed on the DNR website as of 8:20 p.m. includes 16 wolves in the DNR’s Northeast hunting zone – including most of the Northland – as well as four wolves in east-central Minnesota and 12 in northwestern Minnesota.
The quota is 200 wolves for the early hunting season, which continues until Nov. 18 or until the quota is met. The wolf season opened concurrently with Minnesota’s firearms deer hunt across Northeastern Minnesota.
A second wolf hunting season, along with a trapping season, will begin Nov. 24 and continue through Jan. 31. That harvest will be capped at 200 wolves, too.
The state of Minnesota assumed management of the gray wolf after it was removed from the federal Endangered Species List on Jan. 27. Some groups said the DNR did not offer enough opportunity for public comment on the wolf season. No public hearings about the season were held except for testimony before the Legislature. The DNR did offer an online survey about the season, and about 80 percent of respondents said they opposed a wolf season.
Two groups, Howling for Wolves and the Center for Biological Diversity, sued the DNR to stop this fall’s hunt but were unsuccessful. Howling for Wolves sponsored a protest in downtown Duluth on Saturday about the wolf hunt. The protest drew about 35 people.
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AL DHAFERAH, a 136.34 m Motor Yacht built in Germany and delivered in 1987, is the flagship of Bremer Vulkan.
Her top speed is 21.0 kn and her cruising speed is 19.0 kn and her power comes from four General Motors diesel engines. She can accommodate up to 266 guests, with 130 crew members. She has a gross tonnage of 10797.0 GT and a 21.04 m beam.
She was designed by Three Quays Marine.
The naval architecture was developed by Bremer Vulkan - she is built with a Steel deck, a Steel hull, and Steel superstructure.
AL DHAFERAH is in the top 5% by LOA in the world. She is one of 57 motor yachts longer than 100m, and, compared to similarly sized motor yachts, her cruising speed is 2.5 kn above the average, her top speed 0.84 kn above the average, and her volume 3603.59 GT above the average.
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A female Stanford University student who says the same male student sexually assaulted her and several other women has filed a lawsuit against the university, alleging Stanford violated federal anti-discrimination law Title IX and acted negligently by failing to protect her and others from a "known sexual predator on campus."
Equal Rights Advocates, a national civil-rights organization based in San Francisco that supports and advocates for women's rights, along with San Francisco-based The Liu Law Firm and Colorado-based Hutchinson Black and Cook, filed a complaint for damages on behalf of the anonymous woman on Monday with the U.S. District Court of Northern California's San Francisco division.
Though the student is only identified as Jane Doe in the complaint, the details of her case match those detailed in a Jan. 22, 2016, Palo Alto Weekly story about a male Stanford student who over the course of his college career, Doe alleges, sexually and physically assaulted her and three other female undergraduate students. The incidences took place between 2011 and 2014, with most happening on campus, the women said. In the Weekly's story, Doe is the same woman identified by the pseudonym "Celena Dako." All of the students' names in that story were changed at their requests to protect their privacy.
The complaint details unsatisfactory experiences the women had reporting the sexual and physical violence to Stanford, alleging the university was "deliberately indifferent" to the point of violating Doe's civil rights.
She is seeking a jury trial to determine the amount of damages she is owed due to Stanford's negligence, deprivation of equal access to education, emotional harm and past and future financial costs, the lawsuit states.
Stanford spokeswoman Lisa Lapin said that despite the university's "sympathy" for Doe, Stanford "will be vigorously defending the lawsuit as we believe that Stanford has acted appropriately in this matter."
"In our response to these cases, we aim to work in a sensitive and compassionate manner with those who have experienced trauma, to investigate every dimension of the facts as we are able, to ensure the fair treatment of everyone involved, and to take the actions necessary to protect the safety of individuals and the campus community as a whole," she wrote in an email. "We believe our Title IX process is effective and fair."
The university cannot comment on specific facts of the case due to student privacy laws. Lapin said Stanford will be filing a response in court "shortly."
Stanford first became aware of the allegations in 2012, when one of the women, identified in the complaint as "Ms. A" (and as "Sara Ortiz" in the Weekly's story), reported that while dating the male student in 2011 he had choked and raped her in her dorm room. Doe's report came next in 2014, when she said that the man assaulted her on campus. Three of the four women reported the incidences to Stanford.
Stanford's Title IX office eventually found in all three reported cases that the man, identified as "Mr. X" in the complaint, had violated university policy that prohibits relationship violence, sexual misconduct and sexual assault. He was banned from campus for 15 years and required to seek professional counseling for sexual harassment and sexual violence, among other consequences.
The complaint alleges various Stanford administrators and staff members responded inadequately to Doe and Ms. A, from an academic adviser who suggested Ms. A should "take individual steps to deal with her rape and improve her mental health, such as renting a car and going to a beach" to a failure to fully investigate their complaints about the male student.
"Stanford, through the inaction of various officials with the ability and authority to take remedial action to stop the sexual harassment, sexual assaults, and sexual discrimination, had actual knowledge of, and was deliberately indifferent to sexual harassment that was so severe, pervasive and objectively offensive that it deprived Ms. Doe of access to the educational benefits or opportunities provided by Stanford, in violation of Title IX," the complaint states.
Lapin said the university encourages all students to report any incidents of sexual violence to both the police and Stanford, but that "without the cooperation of victims, the university is very limited in what it can do."
While Ms. A did not initially want to pursue disciplinary action against her alleged assailant -- after a "victim-blaming" experience with a counselor and another administrator's description of the "difficulty of taking criminal or administrative action," the complaint states -- she did eventually request Stanford conduct an investigation, after discovering that the man had allegedly assaulted two other women.
The complaint also alleges that Stanford violated California's Gender Motivated Violence Act, the Equity in Higher Education Act as well as its "duties of care" for Doe, "causing her to suffer significant emotional distress and other physical and emotional injuries."
Both Ms. A and Doe eventually took leaves of absence, according to the lawsuit. Doe continues to experience "considerable anxiety and emotional distress," the complaint states. She also suffered financial damages as a result of Stanford's violations of Title IX, the complaint alleges.
Doe "has been damaged and injured physically, emotionally, and financially, including but not limited to suffering from pain, anxiety, depression, serious emotional distress, and embarrassment, as well as loss of health, future relationships, income, employment, and future career benefits and earning potential," the complaint states.
The complaint seeks damages to be determined at a jury trial.
"Women will not have an equal opportunity to succeed academically until the epidemic of sexual violence on campus ends," Equal Rights Advocates Senior Staff Attorney Rebecca Peterson-Fisher told the Weekly Tuesday. "Institutions like Stanford need to be held accountable for their failure to recognize the severity of these crimes and to comply with Title IX."
Doe and Ms. A also previously filed federal complaints against Stanford with the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights, cases which are currently under investigation.
Stanford is also facing two other separate Office for Civil Rights complaints as well as a federal lawsuit filed this spring by a former male student alleging the university violated his Title IX rights. His lawsuit alleges that the combination of a flawed disciplinary process and a university under public pressure to protect its "purported prestige and reputation against criticism that Stanford fails to adequately address alleged sexual assaults of women by men" led to violations of his right to a fair process.
The Palo Alto Weekly has created an archive of past news articles, social media reaction and other content related to the ongoing sexual assault issues at Stanford University. To view it, go to storify.com/paloaltoweekly.