1959
Dr. Morton Hamermesh, estimated 1959
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Morton Hamermesh, 1930
October 13 1930
Jefferson High Clubs Reorganize and Elect 13 Oct 1930, Mon The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (Brooklyn, New York) Newspapers.com
Jefferson High Clubs Reorganize and Elect
Student clubs at Thomas Jefferson High School have reorganized for a new term and elected new officers, announcement was made today. Officers are:
CHESS CLUB
Morris Herbat, president.
Morton Hamermesh, vice president.
Isadora Cohen, secretary.
Jacob Dolgenas, faculty adviser.
Morton Hamermesh, 1934
January 04 1934
Charles Zimmerman vs. Morton Hamermesh 04 Jan 1934, Thu The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (Brooklyn, New York) Newspapers.com
Played between Charles Zimmerman, Brooklyn College, and Morton Hamermesh, City College, in the tournament of the Intercollegiate Chess League.
Charles Zimmerman (white) vs. Morton Hamermesh (black)
French Defense: Advance Variation, Nimzowitsch Gambit
January 11 1934
Fine Close to Title 11 Jan 1934, Thu The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (Brooklyn, New York) Newspapers.com
Fine Close to Title
With two more rounds remaining to be contested, Reuben Fine, club champion, continues in the lead, still undefeated, in the annual tournament for the championship of the Marshall Chess Club. He was paired against Morton Hamermesh of the C. C. N. Y. varsity team in the ninth round. Hamermesh was in good form and succeeded in holding his own, the game being drawn.
July 19 1934
Hamermesh, Bonholz Score 19 Jul 1934, Thu The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (Brooklyn, New York) Newspapers.com
Hamermesh, Bonholz Score
Morton Hamermesh and Robert L. Bornholz, scoring 9-2 apiece, shared first and second prizes in the weekly rapid transit tournament at the Marshall Chess Club. Irving Chernev, 8-3, was third. E. T. McCormick and Edward Price, 7-4, tied for fourth place.
December 27 1934
N. Y. U. Finishes In Third Place 27 Dec 1934, Thu The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (Brooklyn, New York) Newspapers.com
N. Y. U. FINISHES IN THIRD PLACE
New York University finishes a good third with a record of five matches won and two lost. Yeshiva, Brooklyn and Seth Low are neck and neck for fourth place, with Pennsylvania still to be heard from after the results of the adjourned games are known.
The best individual records so far have been made by Lawrence Greene, No. 2 of Columbia, with 7-0, and Hamermesh, No. 1 of City College, 6-0. Other good first-board figures are those of MacMurray, 5-1, and Harold Sussman, Brooklyn College, 5-2. At the third board the best work has been done by David Bernstein, Columbia's captain, 5½-1½, and Sidney Pearl, City College, 5-1. Both are residents of Brooklyn. Alfred Friedman of New York University is sure of one of the Phillips medals for his score of 6-1.
December 28 1934
City College, Columbia in Chess Playoff 28 Dec 1934, Fri The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (Brooklyn, New York) Newspapers.com
City College, Columbia in Chess Playoff
Repeat Performance of Last Year by Ending Tournament in a Tie
After a day of ups and downs, City College and Columbia chess players, again rivals for the Harold M. Phillips trophy, emblematic of the championship of the Intercollegiate Chess League, of which the donor is president, repeated their performance of last year by winding up the annual tournament at the Manhattan Chess Club in a tie.
As was the case on the last occasion, these two strong teams must play off for the title and trophy, which is still in the possession of the C. C. N. Y. Chess Club. Both teams won five matches and tied two for team totals of 217 each. They could not very well have been better matched.
Real Setback
City College experienced the first real setback in the match with Pennsylvania when the adjourned game from the fifth round between S. Pearl and C. Mott was won by the latter for the Quaker team. This brought about a 2-2 tie and offset Columbia's earlier tie with Brooklyn College. It was then up to Donald MacMurray of Columbia to draw his adjourned game with Morton Hamermesh of City College.
No. l in the Blue and White line up had confidently predicted Wednesday night that his opponent could not possibly win, but he was due for a sad awakening. However, it required most skillful tactics on the part of Hamermesh to bring about the undoing of the youthful freshman from Morningside Heights to save his side from defeat and tie the score. An effort will be made to play the supplementary match for the championship before the New Year.
Morton Hamermesh, 1966
May 21 1966
Check Mates 21 May 1966, Sat The Minneapolis Star (Minneapolis, Minnesota) Newspapers.com
CHECK MATES—Puzzling over his next move during a faculty-student chess match at the University of Minnesota Friday was Brendan Godfrey. Godfrey, an Institute of Technology junior, was pitted against Prof. Morton Hamermesh of the Physics Department. Such matches are becoming increasingly popular with both students and faculty. In yesterday's match the faculty boasted of players such as D. Burnham Terrell, a former Minnesota champion. Godfrey, who is a member of the United States chess team, was the pride of the students.
Morton Hamermesh, 2003
November 16 2003
Physics Prof. Morton Hamermesh Dies at 87 16 Nov 2003, Sun Star Tribune (Minneapolis, Minnesota) Newspapers.com
Physics Prof. Morton Hamermesh Dies at 87
By Lourdes Medrano Leslie
Star Tribune Staff Writer
Morton Hamermesh, a retired physics professor and former head of the University of Minnesota's School of Physics and Astronomy, died Friday in Minneapolis of complications from a heart attack. He was 87.
Hamermesh, a native of Brooklyn, N.Y., joined the university in 1965 after two years as associate director at Argonne National Laboratory near Chicago. Previously, he had taught physics for about two decades at New York University and City College of New York — both alma maters — and at Stanford University in California.
Hamermesh left the University of Minnesota in 1969 for a similar post at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, but he returned to the Twin Cities a year later. He led the university's School of Physics and Astronomy until 1975, and retired in 1985.
Allen Goldman, who now leads the department, said Hamermesh will be missed. “We viewed him as a real leader who had a major impact on the development of the department,” Goldman said. “Under his watch, the department branched out into the areas of experimental particle physics and condensed matter physics.”
Goldman said that Hamermesh made important contributions to his field of theoretical nuclear physics. They include a greater understanding of certain techniques for determining the atomic structure of materials, as well as contributions to the design of machines called accelerators, which produce particles of high energy.
Hamermesh's wife of 62 years, Madeline, said her husband's career achievements included working with Nobel physics laureates John Van Vleck, Clifford Shull, Felix Block and Julian Schwinger.
Hamermesh wasn't just an outstanding physicist, Madeline Hamermesh said, but he was also a devoted family man, an avid student of biblical Hebrew and an accomplished chess player. He spoke Russian, as well.
The two met in New York in 1938, after one of Hamermesh's cousins organized a small party for friends and relatives.
“Let me put it this way: He couldn't get away,” she said of her husband, whom she described as a man of few words. She recalled the days when Hamermesh would ride the subway for an hour from Brooklyn to see her in the Bronx.
“He was very generous, very kind,” she said. “I was singularly fortunate.”
In addition to his wife, who lives in Minneapolis, Hamermesh is survived by a daughter, Deborah White of Ukiah, Calif.; sons Daniel of Austin, Texas, and Lawrence of Wilmington, Del.; six grandchildren, and seven great-grandchildren.
A funeral will be held at 10:30 a.m. today at Temple Israel, 2324 Emerson Av. S., Minneapolis.
November 15 2003
Hamermesh 15 Nov 2003, Sat Star Tribune (Minneapolis, Minnesota) Newspapers.com
Hamermesh Morton, age 87, died November 14. Survived by wife, Madeline; son, Daniel S. and his wife, Frances; daughter, Deborah White; son, Lawrence A. and his wife, Marion; six grandchildren, David and Matthew Hamermesh, Siggi and Ollie White, Simon and Naomi Hamermesh, and seven great-grandchildren, Jonathan, Sammy, Miriam, Leila, Yonah, Julian and Noah. He was a distinguished physicist and served for ten years as Head of the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Minnesota. He translated many Russian physics books and articles, and was also a skilled and enthusiastic chess player. No flowers, please, but contributions to your favorite charity will be appreciated. Funeral Services at Temple Israel, Emerson and 24th Street, on Sunday morning, November 16, at 10:30 AM. A Celebration of Life will be announced later. For details, please phone Bobby Eich, secretary of the physics department, at 612-624-6366.
Morton Hamermesh, 2004
2004
Physics Today, 2004: “In addition to physics and mathematics, Mort had two passions: chess and languages. In chess, he achieved world-class status, coming in sixth in the US Chess Open in 1945. He studied languages all his life. One of the earliest benefits that the physics community had from that passion was his translation of Lev Landau and Evgenii Lifshitz’s The Classical Theory of Fields (Addison-Wesley) in 1951, which alerted many readers to the riches to be found in the books by those authors. Mort’s activity as a translator of Russian physics literature played an important role in creating an awareness of the high quality of Russian physics during a period when normal contacts were blocked because of the cold war. He continued his studies of Mandarin and Hebrew well into his eighties.
Mort made time to eat lunch with his colleagues at the faculty club whenever possible. We relied on him to relay to us the details of the international chess matches that took place every few years, and he served as an impromptu reviewer of books, movies, plays, and concerts. He was only one or two degrees of separation away from the founders of modern 20th-century physics, and he brought to life the personalities that many of us had only read about. Interested in everything, he shared his enthusiasm with colleagues on the faculty and staff. We miss him.”
John Lee Burton, 1955
August 1955
U.S. Open Chess Championship, California Chess Reporter, August 1955. Beverley Hills Chess Club (seated) A. Lovinger, Phil Waterman, Ellis Levy, F. Engren, and John Burton. (standing) Shep Andalman, V. Fotre, Sid Klinger, R. Steinberg, J. Marmer and N. Robinson.
Robert Hancock Deacon, 1933
1933
1933, Robert Hancock Deacon, Merchantville High School, Merchantville, Camden County, New Jersey
Robert Hancock Deacon, 2009
July 07 2009
Courier-Post, Camden, New Jersey, Tuesday, July 07, 2009
DEACON, Robert H. Sr. On July 5, 2009, age 94 of Merchantville & Pennsauken his entire life.
Beloved husband of Frieda (nee Stutz) and dear father of Robert Jr. (Monica) Deacon of Merchantville, Susan (Robert) Connolly of NH. and the late Gary Deacon. Also survived by daughter in law Karen Deacon, 10 Grandchildren and 9 great-grandchildren.
“Deac” was an Army WW II Veteran, former owner of Joseph H. Deacon Co., Deacon's Luggage and a member of Merchantville Country Club.
Relatives and friends of the family are kindly invited to attend his Visitation Thursday 7-9 PM at the FUNERAL HOME OF INGLESBY & SONS, 2426 Cove Road. Pennsauken NJ 08109 & Friday 10:30-11AM at Grace Episcopal Church, 7 E. Maple Ave. Merchantville. Funeral Service 11 AM Friday at church. Interment Bethel Memorial Park.
In lieu of flowers donations to Parkinson's Disease Assoc. PO Box 2026, Edison, NJ 08818 preferred.
Russell Fred Cockrell, 1940
October 16 1940
October 16, 1940, Russell Fred Cockrell, Military Registration Card
Russell Fred Cockrell, 1950
December 21 1950
The Rock Island Argus, Rock Island, Illinois, Thursday, December 21, 1950
Local Players Get National Ratings In Chess Magazine
Two Rock Island chess players, Karl H. Wiegmann and Henry E. Jeffrey, are listed in Chess Life, official publication of the United States Chess federation, among those who have been given national ratings. Both men are members of the Tri-City Chess and Checkers club and play an active part in its work.
Mr. Wiegmann was classed among 200 rated experts, and Mr. Jeffrey was placed in class C.
The ratings are based upon games they played in Illinois state tournaments. Classifications are: Grandmasters, masters, experts, and classes A, B, C and D. Next year chess games of the Trans-Mississippi Chess and Checkers tournament will be rated by the federation.
Albert N. Sandrin, Chicago, who won the Trans-Mississippi tournament title several times, was the only master of the 16 listed who has played in this area. John Ragan, St. Louis university student who won the title last June, also was listed as an expert.
Others listed, who have played in the annual tourney, include Charles P. Adams and son Paul of Forest Park, John Penquites, Des Moines high school student, and Russell Cockrell, Rockford, president of the Illinois Chess association.
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March 9, 1943 - January 17, 2008The photograph of Bobby Fischer (above) from the March 02, 1956 The Tampa Times was discovered by Sharon Mooney (Bobby Fischer Newspaper Archive editor) on February 01, 2018 while gathering research materials for this ongoing newspaper archive project. Along with lost games now being translated into Algebraic notation and extractions from over two centuries of newspapers, it is but one of the many lost treasures to be found in the pages of old newspapers since our social media presence was first established November 11, 2017.
