89-1367 Jack Barrett at Chelsea
Naval Hospital 1968
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Jack Barrett was
active 1913-1917 in Carroll Council Knights of Columbus in District of
Columbia while working at united States naval Hydrographic Office in State,
War, and Navy Building. The Council sent a representative to visit Jack at
Chelsea Naval Hospital when he was under treatment for prostate enlargement.
This was one of two photos they took - the other which was destroyed by
thieves 1993 showed both Jack and the representative of the Carroll Council.
{4} INTERNET TUTORING RESEARCH SCIENCE NEWS HISTORY service. John Barrett
113 West Third Street, Port Angeles WA98362-2824 I am offering Internet
services, which anyone can utilize, but which I hope will attract financial
contributions, especially from persons who desire research, editing, typing,
or desire to make possible various public interest activities. I shall treat
any payments as personal income to my self for income tax purposes. Research
by my mother and myself since 1967 to produce materials on this website
http://www.ccilink.com/photobook or http://www.ccilink.com/barrett has cost
over a quarter of a million dollars, and I have had recent losses in biotech
stocks in cancer, cystic fibrosis and similar scientific research, and I
have encountered serious age and hiring discrimination after taking care of
my mother who was disabled twenty-six years, though active writing history
and carrying on remarkable correspondence. I have done a great deal of
science and hope to send out essays on recent progress in genetics, fusion
energy, nutrition, preventive medicine, heart diesease, especially prospects
for using bone marrow stem cells to repair heart muscle after coronary
thrombosis. I have done a great deal of reading on biolgical systematics,
phylogeny, cladistics, ecology, paleobiology, earth history, mineralogy,
structure of earth's interior, weather, global warming, non-fossil fuels. I
majored in economics at Harvard College 1957 magna cum laude Phi Beta Kappa
and was 1960 Harvard Law School graduate and admitted to Massachusetts Bar
1960 while in Air Force Reserve medics. Currently I am interested in
economic studies of timber industry, fisheries, Olympic region including
logging and Native Americans. I support subsitence whaling by Makah Indians
and various other peoples in Siberia and elsewhere - the whale blubber is
rich in Omega three oils that are very often deficient in babies and young
children. There are both positive and negative aspects of genetically
engineered foods and crops. I am interested whether the Omega three oils
docosohexenoic acid and EPA eicosapentamoic acid can be manufactured
synthetically outside plants at reasonable cost and whether they can be kept
fresh in baby formulas, where they are presently lacking, so that breast-fed
babies are generally healthier and less obese. I am interested in issues of
psychology including mental health - my classmate Peter Nathan has had a
distinguised career in clinical study and treatment of alcoholism, and I am
hoping to write down apsects of his career and current thinking. Two Harvard
friends have been doing well under long-term schizophrenia research, and for
two years I have been reading in detail the Schizophrenia Bulletin published
by the National Institute of Mental Health, an outstanding and remarkable
publication. I have considerable material on Alzheiner's, mad cow and prion
diseases, malaria, vaccines, health insurance, hearing, vision, amino acids,
apoptosis. I have been active on human rights with especial interest in
Haiti, East Timor, Burma, and many nations of Africa. In 1994-1995 I had 113
substitute teaching days at 45 different Boston Public Schools in most
subjects including math, science, English, history, social studies, French,
Latin, Greek, - I sometimes filled in in Spanish, in which I am not highly
fluent although I am studying Cervantes and the golden age literature,
Garcilaso, Lope de Vega, Gongora, Carderon de la Barca. I am available for
tutoring in most of these subjects by Internet or locally in Port Angeles-
Forks - Grays Harbor area. I refreshed my Latin last year while tutoring
Zachary Cole, three-sport athlete at Forks High School with pre-med plans -
he called my attention to excellent classic texts website
www.perseus.tufts.edu - I have done a great deal of music and art history -
my cousin Deborah Meranski Sonnenstrahl taught art history over thirty years
and is now emeritus at Gallaudette University Washington DC and is
completing book on 63 Deaf American artists - special interests of mine are
Sandro Botticelli, El Greco Domenico Thetocopoulos Velazquez, Hans
Holbein,Hobbema, Joshua Reynolds, Gericault, Pissarro, Manet, Henri
Rousseau, Albert Bierstadt, John Enneking. I am available for piano or music
history-theory-harmony lessons in local area. Over the years my interest has
been mainly classical, with special focus on Franz Schubert, Joseph
Haydn,Niccolo Paganini, Giacomo Rossini, Giuseppe Verdi, Otto Nicolai,Cesar
Franck, Johann Strauss, Jan Sibelius, Alexander Borodin, Daris Milhaud,
Jerome Kern. I have researched about four hundred songs, nearly all American
that my mother and in some cases my father sang. My cousin Jason Pollack's
son Jon Pollack the last ten years has had a weekly jazz radio program
Thursdays 4-6 pm Eastern time on the MIT radio station WMBR-fm, and it is
now on Internet http://wmbr.mit.edu - so I have learned the basics of jazz
especially early figures like Bessie Smith, Coleman Hawkins, Myles Davis,
Louis Armstrong, Harry James. My father was interested in astronomy,
learning navigation at the Revenue Cutter School and getting actual practice
as early as 1909 on cruise to the Mediterranean. We learned the stars on
black-out nights in Waikiki in early days of World War 2 - the Southern
Cross was visible in the summer in our latitude 21 degrees north. I follow
Sky and Telescope and ASTRONOMY magazines and have a great deal of material
on the structure of the Milky Way Galaxy, on cosmology theory, on the
evolution and ages of individual stars - from pre-main sequence like T Tauri
through the Herzsprung Russell Main Sequence where hydrogen is fused to
helium in the core to the late stages approaching supernova, including
Cepheid and RR Lyrae variables, and the formations of elements, neutron
stars, possible 'strange matter' dark matter, black holes. The apparent
acceleration of universe expansion is one of the main recent developments
past three years. Age of universe is currently estimated at fourteen billion
years. The dark halo may contain huge numbers of burned-out white dwarfs
usually about 50% - 60% of the mass of the sun. Red dwarfs are the smallest
stars that can sustain hydrogren fusion in their cores - there is a bottom
limit of about eigh per cent of the mass of the sun - below that brown
dwarfs shine for a time by heat of gravitational contraction and fusion of
lithium and deuterium, but the red dwarfs fuse very slowly and are expected
to last about five trillion years - five thousand billion years or five time
ten-to-the-twelfth power in scientific notation. I am doing considerable
research whether it will be possible to remove mass from the sun to keep
earth habitable possibly billions of years - otherwise the sun is growing
slowly warmer, causing carbon dioxide to react with silicate rocks and leave
the atmosphere - there has been a drop in carbon dioxide for the last
hundred million years, reducing photosynthesis - if we do nothing in around
another hundred million years, this could end life on earth as temperature
gets to around 120 degrees F. or 50 Celsius. Although a great deal of energy
will be needed, I believe we can remove mass from sun and keep earth
habitable a very long time. I am very happy here in Port Angeles with a mild
climate and friendly people, and I would like to keep my home where, rent is
now $445 a month and utilities about $90 a month. I hope I can find part
time work, but it is not easy, as I have been out of the job market and have
a strange resume - nearly blank as far as recent employment! I can travel to
lecture or consult people, but hope to maintain my home. I had a very
enjoyable month trip east in November 1999 visting Harvard botany and
libraries, and cousins and Paul Kavanaugh in Fairfax VA and the Malesons and
Burnettes in Massachusetts. I also saw Bob Owen in Topeka Kansas and
Meranski cousins in Colorado in 1999. If finances permit I would enjoy
attending Harvard class reunion 2002 or Camp Kabeyun in summer or Friends of
Farlow Herbarium in November. "Those who pay the fiddler call the tune" - if
anyone would like to sponsor research and writing on a particular subject, I
shall try to carry out projects to best of my ability. To stay off charity
or welfare, I need a current budget around eight thousand dollars a year,
and my savings should last about a year to fifteen months, barring illness
or unexpected expense. I suspect that government grants or foundation money
might be available for some of the things I am doing, but I am rather
ignorant what to do by way of inquiry and application and will welcome
guidance. I have thought of trying to develop teaching materials of various
sorts and would welcome ideas and COLLABORATORS. Some of my potential
material is on website http://www.ccilink.com/barrett. I have thought of
making tapes both singing and music analysis and various teaching materials
and travel-tourism-natural history materials. I have a great knowledge of
western history and places including Hawaii where we lived 1941-1947. I
might write down a great deal of histoy of Harvard College and University,
and I have much material on many educational institutions including Mount
Holyoke College, Coast Guard Academy, Naval War College, and many more. |