Margaret Nordbye and her friend, Joseph Pasquarelli. A small group of people gathered outside St. Boniface Catholic Church in the South Wedge on an overcast day in January to remember a friend to the neighborhood. Her name was Margaret Nordbye, and that day would have been her 102nd birthday had she not died the previous August. Those gathered shouted out “independent,” “devoted,” “grateful,” “giving,” and “beautiful” when prompted for words to describe her. They came to dedicate in her memory what might seem the most trivial of objects a shepherd’s crook about 8 feet in height but it was a fitting tribute to Norbye, who had spent some 60 years keeping watch over the neighborhood from her home on Linden Street.
19 Jan 2021 We Are The Mighty | By James Elphick
The 1998 movie “Saving Private Ryan” is one of the all-time great war movies. While much of the movie is a fictional account, the premise behind Capt. Miller’s mission is based on a true story. That is the story of the Niland brothers Edward, Preston, Robert, and Frederick from Tonawanda, New York.
The two middle brothers inspiring the “Private Ryan” film, Preston and Robert, had enlisted prior to the beginning of the War. After America entered the war the oldest, Edward, and youngest, Frederick, known as Fritz to his friends, joined up in November 1942.
The National Cybersecurity Center will begin a free, four-month virtual class Tuesday that puts adult students on a path to well-paying jobs in the cybersecurity industry.
The center’s fundamentals of IT (information technology) class is designed for students to earn an initial certification and up to two others that would qualify them for an entry-level cybersecurity position, said Thomas Russell, the nonprofit’s cyber education program manager and instructor for the class. They will meet from 5:30-8 p.m. Tuesday and Thursday from Jan. 19-May 27 and will include lessons on computer hardware and software, internet technologies, programming, cybersecurity and information technology career planning.
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Yet this suburban wife and mother was never fully credited with her work – until now.
American Experience is presenting “The Codebreaker,” which delves into Friedman’s life. The documentary will air at 8 p.m. Monday, Jan. 11, on New Mexico PBS.
Friedman Family Portrait. Washington, D.C., 1930s. (Courtesy of George C. Marshall Foundation Library)
Chana Gazit is the filmmaker behind the documentary.
“When I do films like this, I always feel that I live with the person,” Gazit says. “I loved living with Elizebeth Friedman. It was quite amazing.”
Gazit says Friedman lived a secret double life that would only come to light decades after her death, when classified government files were unsealed.