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>>18703729

>Grandma Louis…

>>18703948

>Could be a coincidence.

>>18704024

>wow

>>18704106

>full obit is very interdasting.

>Louise Donelan; social worker was 'ultimate extrovert'; 92

Louise Donelan, was a Social Worker who worked for an adoption agency in Washington DC

>Red Cross

>Catholic Charities

>Husband was FBI Inspector

>Settled inMcClean, VA

>"She touched everyone she met in a memorable and lasting way"

>Friends may call at CHANDLER FUNERAL HOME

> She worked atPierce Warwickin Washington, D.C.,

>>18704160

>they had a purpose. It went away when Ireland was freed.

>take what I say as if it's just BS, but by being so quick with your clown graphics, I think you out yourself as a gate-keeper clown.

>also, given that S Boston is a center of it, and that htey are marxist, the 'irish' from south boston

>could be from anywhere in the world

>with relatives who never saw Ireland at all.

I'm agreeing with you, retard.

The IRA are just like the Clowns In America only with a funny accent.

hence the honkler posting

>>18704223

>> She worked atPierce Warwickin Washington, D.C.,

Wapo advertising Special Children in the 80s, including those placed by Pierce Warwick

> https://archive.ph/raHRn

'Special Children' Awaiting Adoption

By S and

ra R. Gregg

July 9, 1981

Three-year-old Niki is a charming little girl with alluring eyes, a serious disease and no permanent home. She is adrift in the District of Columbia's foster care system, waiting for a family willing to adopt her.

Niki is one of nearly 2,200 District children in foster care and one of 214 who need adoptive families. A third of the District's children are now in foster homes in suburban Maryland, including Niki, who is in the care of a Landover family. Another 1,117 Prince George's and Montgomery county children are in foster homes or institutions. In Prince George's, 132 are legally free for adoption, and in Montgomery five are waiting for permanent homes.

All but a handful of the youngsters awaiting adoption are "special needs" children, who are hard to place because of their age, race or health.

In 1977, three months after Niki was born, doctors at Children's Hospital discovered she had cystic fibrosis. For the first 18 months of her life, Niki lived between the Hospital for Sick Children and her mother's home in the District. Unable to cope with her daughter's disease, her mother put Niki up for adoption in 1979, according to social service workers. The baby became a ward of the District's Department of Human Services (DHS).

The Pierce-Warwick Adoption Service, a private D.C. agency that contracts with DHS to find homes for children with special problems, placed Niki with Donna Dougherty, a 24-year-old Baltimore woman whose husband had died of cancer. The adoption never became final.

After 18 months, Dougherty, who also has two young sons, said she began to feel that Niki was so attached to her that she could not leave the house, and that she could not face the prospect of seeing the child die in a few years.

According to Dr. Beryl Rosenstein, who treated Niki in Baltimore, the child has a moderate case of cystic fibrosis, a progressive and eventually fatal disease caused by an enzyme deficiency. The disorder affects the lungs and makes her highly susceptible to infection and colds. Rosenstein said Niki's life expectancy depends on how often she gets sick. The average CF patient lives 18 years, though some now survive into their thirties.

Niki requires physical therapy called "postural drainage" about 20 minutes twice a day. The treatment consists of tapping on the child's back while she is in various positions to dislodge any mucus that has collected in her lungs. She also takes medication to help her digest food and gain weight.

In May, Niki was placed in the Landover home of Willie and Millie Hall, who have raised another CF child. Niki's "doing real well," said Millie Hall, adding that she and her husband are willing to care for Niki as her foster parents as long as possible. But, she says, "I feel we are too old to adopt."

Martha Galdi, a Pierce-Warwick social worker, insists that Niki still needs a permanent home. "She needs parents who can be with her while she's living, to enjoy her, and then most particularly, she needs a mommy and daddy who can be with her when she dies. . . . The danger in foster care is that it's not a permanent commitment."

District social service workers were willing to tell Niki's story and permit use of her photograph in hopes of finding a home for her and other hard-to-place children, but said they could not publish her name. Niki is the name given to her by the Baltimore woman who cared for her.

While handicapped children like Niki are difficult to place, healthy children who are older or black also are difficult to find homes for, according to social workers in the District and in Maryland. The "special needs" children who wait the longest for homes are black, male and more than 6 years old.

Carol Siemens, head of adoptions for the Department of Social Services in Prince George's County, said it is also especially difficult to find foster or adoptive families for adolescents and sibling groups.

Finding homes in Prince George's is particularly hard because many families in that county take foster children from the District, which pays families about $200 per month to cover the care of a child, according to Barbara Hoagwood, who oversees foster care in Prince George's. This compares with an average of $170 per month paid by Prince George's.

>>18704239

>>18704239

>'Special Children' Awaiting Adoption

In all jurisdictions the subsidies are available to foster parents as well as to many parents who adopt special needs children. Generally, subsidies paid adoptive families are about $50 a month less than those paid foster families in the District and Prince George's. Some extra services and, in some cases, extra money are provided families who adopt children with medical problems. Montgomery County pays a monthly subsidy of $220 to foster and adoptive parents, and $247 a month to families with special needs children. Subsidies and services beyond the basic amounts are decided on a case-by-case basis.

Compared with the difficulties encountered by social service workers in the District and Prince George's, Montgomery workers have been notably successful in finding permanent homes for children. Montgomery adoptions chief Jean Royer said her department gets 30 to 40 calls per month for prospective adopting parents.

Royer said she is pleasantly surprised at the increasing number of people who are willing to adopt children with problems. Recently her agency has placed a 4-year-old with cystic fibrosis, a baby with water on the brain, a child with kidney disease and an Oriental teen-ager.

The Prince George's agency has not had as much success. Carol Siemens said most of the white children in public custody have serious handicaps and social workers have "no luck at all" in finding adoptive homes for them.

Throughout the metropolitan area, workers agree that black children have the hardest time finding homes. For years, adoptions in black families were uncommon because blacks often informally adopted the children of relatives, Siemens said. Also, she added, blacks are often reluctant to deal with public agencies.

These trends are slowly changing. Last year Montgomery County hired part-time social worker Geraldine Robinson to encourage more black families to consider adoption. Robinson said she found that many blacks believed they had to be financially well off to adopt. Robinson has been trying to clear up some of those misconceptions by speaking to church and social groups throughout the county. She is also trying to persuade potential parents to consider older children with problems. "The black families I've been working with tend to be like their white, middle-income counterparts . . . they want healthy babies," she said.

Robinson is meeting with success in black communities. Seven foster parents have adopted their children in the past year, and she has identified 23 black families in the county who are ready to adopt. Four of those families have received children recently and are awaiting final clearance of the adoptions.

In Maryland, when all local attempts to recruit a family for special children fails, agencies often turns to Rudy Miller of WBAL (Channel 11) in Baltimore, Miller's weekly show, "Wednesday's Child," features children in their favorite activities. (District social workers say they are reluctant "advertise" children like Niki, however.)

The show began last October and has featured 29 children. To date, 10 of those children have been adopted, and five others are in the process of meeting potential new families. But as all the social workers point out, there still plenty of children waiting.

>>18704223

>Louise Donelan, was a Social Worker who worked for an adoption agency in Washington DC

>>18704239

>>18704243

>Settled inMcClean, VA

>"She touched everyone she met in a memorable and lasting way"

>Friends may call at CHANDLER FUNERAL HOME

> She worked atPierce Warwickin Washington, D.C.,

Just as a reminder

> https://archive.is/ZzMpu

Mother of chief of staff to Bill Clinton, Podesta, Dies at 89

By Antonis Diamataris -

March 12, 2007

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By Chris Fusco

The Chicago Sun-Times

MARY K. PODESTA 1918-2007

The daughter of Greek immigrants, Mary K. Podesta knew how to cook a mean

spanakopita. She married an Italian, so she knew her pastas and sauces, too.

But besides knowing food, Mrs. Podesta knew politics. She paid attention to

the news, was a poll-watcher on election days in Chicago and raised two

politically active sons — one of whom grew up to become President Bill

Clintons chief of staff.

So its no surprise that once Mrs. Podesta moved to Washington, D.C., to be

closer to her sons, she took to cooking at political fund-raisers. What is

surprising is how she became a celebrity of sorts, wowing people not only

with her meatballs but her wit.

Mrs. Podesta, known to many of the nations Democratic elite as Mama

Podesta, died Friday in Washington from chronic obstructive pulmonary

disease. She was 88.

She had two sons, but she adopted another 25 people during the time she

came to Washington, said her older son, Tony Podesta, a Washington public

affairs strategist.

She had two lives. She was a wife and mother in Chicago, but then she came

to Washington and became friends with presidents and senators who always

enjoyed her wit and willingness to say anything to anybody.

Born Mary Kokoris, Mrs. Podesta graduated from Von Steuben High School and

got to know her husband, John D. Podesta, because she worked in her fathers

Greek restaurant and he was a customer.

Mr. Podesta died in 1980, and Mrs. Podesta moved to Washington in 1987.

While in Chicago, she worked for Bankers Life and Casualty Co. and became an

astute political observer, her sons recalled.

Who was running the country mattered to her, said her younger son, John

Podesta, Clintons chief of staff from 1998 to 2001. At the end of the day,

that probably influenced me.

A 2004 Associated Press profile noted that her home cooking has raised

millions of dollars for Democrats and benefitted a whos who of candidates.

Among them are Sen. Tom Daschle of South Dakota, the current minority

leader; Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts, and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of

New York.

The Clintons spoke with her in her final months. We are deeply saddened by

Marys passing and our thoughts are with John, Tony, and her entire family,

they said in a statement. She had a great spark and leaves behind an

incredible legacy.

Other survivors include her sister, Evelyn Carres.

Visitation will be from 5 to 8 p.m. Tuesday at Montclair-Lucania Funeral

home, 6901 W. Belmont. Services will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday at

Montclair-Lucania.

>>18704330

Cease & Decist with your illegal memes

>>18704223

>>18704239

>>18704243

>>18704264

https://archive.org/details/AlgerHissWhittakerChambers/Hiss%2C%20Alger-Whittaker%20Chambers-NYC-43/page/n75/mode/2up?q=charles+donelan

Alger Hiss/Whittaker Chambers

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Federal Bureau of Investigation

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CPUSA, Communism, Communist Party, Communists, Alger Hiss, Whittaker Chambers, Federal Bureau of Investigation, FBI

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FBI file: Alger Hiss/Whittaker Chambers

>>18704606

dafug

check out the name of the cop

>>18704791

>>18704807

Macauley, who was a renowned aerospace researcher, was stabbed to death as she walked her two big dogs the night of July 8, 2016, and there are still no answers.

"You know she knew her neighborhood. She was a careful person. She was a street-savvy person, so how did this happen?" Palmer said.

Palmer and theBaltimore police detective leading the investigation, Sean Dallessandro,are determined to keep the case in the forefront of people's minds.

https://www.wbaltv.com/article/who-killed-roland-park-resident-molly-macauley/13856368

"We're always looking for that witness, somebody to call, somebody to give us that one tip. This one's rather puzzling, which is nerve wracking to say the least," Dallessandro said.

Macauley's dog walk along relatively quiet University Parkway at 10:47 p.m. was a routine route for her. The killer seems to have appeared out of nowhere and stabbed her several times. She was found on the ground covered in blood, still holding on to the dogs.

Police didn't find a weapon. It didn't appear to be a robbery, and the only apparent witnesses are neighbors who heard her scream.

"You know this didn't have anything to do with drugs. It didn't have anything to do with a domestic incident. It didn't have anything to do with the core of what our homicides usually are," Dallessandro said.

Macauley was the vice president for research at Resources for the Future, a think tank in Washington, D.C. She was a pioneer in space economics, testified before Congress and sat on expert panels.

Dallessandro has enlisted help from the FBI.