The hutch and the war: The journey of a fallen Marine’s generations-old furniture piece from one Northampton family to another decades after his death in Vietnam
Updated Mar 11, 2021;
Posted Mar 11, 2021
Kenneth Kenny Johnson died in the Vietnam War in 1968. A graduate of Smith Vocational and Agricultural High School in Northampton, Johnson helped build a hutch that stayed in his teacher, William Bill Waslick s, family for generations until his death in November 2020. The Waslick family returned the hutch to the Johnson family in March 2021. Johnson is pictured here in the center alongside his siblings. (Courtesy Susan Loehn)
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They died on vastly different continents, decades apart, one from enemy fire on the battlefields of Vietnam and the other from cancer on a hospital bed in Western Massachusetts.
Departing CEO Joanne Marqusee praises Cooley Dickinson staff, cites growth during tenure
Cooley Dickinson Hospital at 30 Locust St. in Northampton. STAFF FILE PHOTO/KEVIN GUTTING
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NORTHAMPTON Cooley Dickinson Hospital’s physicians and staff, almost a year into the COVID-19 pandemic, continue to work daily to deliver the best care to the public, says outgoing President and CEO Joanne Marqusee.
By putting in place a mandatory face-covering requirement for all staff, setting up a testing site quickly and establishing Zoom-based conversations for improving teamwork, Cooley Dickinson safely served patients as the pandemic hit last March.
“I was most impressed with how quickly staff changed,” Marqusee said. “People kept coming to work and doing the best they could. They would get together and would try new things.”
A Look Back: From the Gazette archives
200 Years Ago
■New Goods! Tappan and Whitney have added a new supply of many articles to their former stock at their cash store in Northampton, making their present assortment of woolen, linen, silk and cotton piece goods, hardware, etc., very good.
■Marble stone cutting, in all its branches tables, monuments, gravestones, etc. Marble from the best Swanton and Berkshire quarries, the former superior to any in the United States, executed with neatness and attention by Moses Goodale, in Amherst.
100 Years Ago
■Warren G. Harding of Ohio and Calvin Coolidge of Massachusetts were inaugurated President and Vice President of the United States at noon on Friday. Mr. Harding took the oath at 1:18 p.m. and Mr. Coolidge at 12:21 p.m.
Cooley Dickinson’s interim president an Amherst native
DAVID BROWN
Published: 3/3/2021 8:12:17 PM
NORTHAMPTON Massachusetts General Hospital’s chief of emergency medicine, and a 1981 Amherst Regional High School graduate, will assume the role of interim president and chief executive officer at Cooley Dickinson Health Care on Monday.
Dr. David F.M. Brown, a member of Cooley Dickinson’s board of trustees since 2013, takes over for Joanne Marqusee, who is stepping down after seven years at the helm of the Northampton hospital.
“I’ve seen the progress this organization made under Joanne Marqusee’s leadership and I’m looking forward to building on her legacy,” Brown said in a statement.
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