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Immigrants Of The Day: Lisa Kalvelage (RIP) of Germany, Jim Yong Kim of South Korea, Claude Rains of Englandby Kevin R. JohnsonLisa Kalvelage (Germany) RIP
Longtime peace activist Lisa Kalvelage, a German immigrant who marched against three U.S. military invasions and coordinated the San Jose Peace Center through the tumultuous Vietnam War era, died on Sunday at age 85. "The Cupertino mother of five is best remembered in a song by legendary folk singer Pete Seeger that she inspired. "My Name is Lisa Kalvelage" evolved from her 1966 act of civil disobedience, when Kalvelage and three other housewives parked themselves in front of a forklift loading shipments of napalm bombs headed from Alviso to Vietnam. Donning Sunday dresses, gloves and heels, the quartet entered the storage yard by climbing a fence, an act that would lead them to the county jail, where they were strip-searched and deloused. Seeger's song recounts the tearful testimony Mrs. Kalvelage gave in her resulting trial on trespassing charges, a courtroom scene that riveted the globe: "Hopefully, some day my contribution to peace will help just a bit to turn the tide," goes the song, which has also been recorded by Bruce Springsteen and Ani DiFranco. Mrs. Kalvelage was eventually convicted, but received a suspended sentence." For an interview with Kalvelage, click here. March 13, 2009 | Permalink Jim Yong Kim (South Korea)
Born in Seoul, Korea in 1959, Jim Yong Kim moved with his family to the United States at age 5 and grew up in Muscatine, Iowa. His father, a dentist, also taught at the University of Iowa, where his mother received her Ph.D. in philosophy. Kim attended Muscatine High School, where he was valedictorian and president of his class and played quarterback for the football team. He graduated magna cum laude from Brown and later earned an M.D. and a Ph.D. in anthropology from Harvard. In 2003, Kim received a MacArthur Foundation grant. He was named one of America's 25 Best Leaders by US News & World Report in 2005. In 2006. Kim was listed as one of the top 100 most influential people by Time. March 11, 2009 | Permalink Claude Rains (England)
Raines' most famous role was as the suave French police Captain Renault in the great refugee film Casablanca. One of Renault's famous lines is "round up the usual suspects." Born in England, Rains immigrated to the United States to puruse a career in Hollywood and became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1939. In 1951, Rains won a Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play for Darkness at Noon. He was also nominated four times for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939), Casablanca (1942), Mr. Skeffington (1944), and Notorious (1946). He has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, at 6400 Hollywood Boulevard. March 26, 2009 | Permalink These posts were orginally posted on the ImmigrationProf Blog here, here and here.
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