Wednesday, June 13, 2007
Carolyn M. AndradeWatergate Committee Staffer
Carolyn M. Andrade, 86, a former Capitol Hill staffer who was administrative assistant to Samuel Dash, chief counsel of the Senate Watergate Committee, died May 17 at the Capital Hospice in Arlington. She had cancer.
During the Nixon administration, Miss Andrade worked for C. Jackson Grayson, chairman of the federal Price Commission. In 1973, she was hired by Dash to run the offices of the Senate Watergate Committee. She also worked for the House Select Committee on Intelligence, chaired by Rep. Otis G. Pike (D-N.Y.), and the office of the special counsel for the House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct. She retired in 1983.
Throughout her life, Miss Andrade appraised, bought, sold and traded antiques with a wide network of collectors. In retirement, she ran her own estate sale business.
Miss Andrade was born in Rochester, N.Y., and moved to Washington during World War II to work in support of the war effort. Later, she worked at the Shoreham Hotel before beginning a 31-year career on Capitol Hill.
Beginning in 1952, Miss Andrade worked for Reps. Barratt O'Hara (D-Ill.), Kenneth J. Gray (D-Ill.), Robert W. Levering (D-Ohio), Seymour Halpern (R-N.Y.), Claude D. Pepper (D-Fla.) and Clair A. Callan (D-Neb.). She also worked for Sens. Stephen Young (D-Ohio) and Edward Zorinsky (D-Neb.).
She was a Georgetown resident for more than 45 years and moved to Arlington in 1999.
She traveled widely in the United States and abroad, including to Turkey, Egypt, Peru, Ireland, England, France, Kenya and Costa Rica.
She leaves no immediate survivors.
-- Yvonne Shinhoster Lamb
Mary Florence Snyder HillNursing Administrator
Mary Florence Snyder Hill, 83, who headed a grant and contract program for nursing schools under the old Department of Health, Education and Welfare for 24 years and then became active in social justice circles through her church, died of pancreatic cancer June 8 at her home in Silver Spring.
Dr. Hill retired this year as chairman of Ministries United Silver Spring/Takoma Park and last year received the Montgomery County Path of Achievement Award for community service. An ordained Presbyterian elder for many years, she was the first elected female elder of the Sixth Presbyterian Church in Pittsburgh and had been a member of the Silver Spring Presbyterian Church since 1980.
She was active in the Pittsburgh and National Capital presbyteries and worked to establish the Silver Spring church as a More Light congregation, making it part of a movement in the U.S. Presbyterian Church that welcomes openly gay members and accepts gay clergy.
Dr. Hill was born in Johnstown, Pa., and received three degrees from the University of Pittsburgh -- her bachelor's in 1945, a master's in nursing in 1949 and a doctorate of nursing in 1966.
She was a psychiatric nurse and nursing administrator at Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic at the University of Pittsburgh and at Sheppard and Enoch Pratt Hospital in Baltimore. Dr. Hill taught at the University of Pittsburgh School of Nursing for many years and developed its master's program in nursing administration.
In 1970, she moved to Washington to work for HEW. She retired from that position in 1994.
Her husband, Robert C. Hill, died in 1961.
Survivors include a daughter, the Rev. Lisa Hill of New York, and a brother.
-- Patricia Sullivan
Peter A. PalaigosAnnapolis Business Owner
Peter Anthony Palaigos, 84, who owned and operated a pool hall on Annapolis's Main Street that he turned into a restaurant called Acme Bar and Grill, died June 4 at his home in Annapolis. He had Parkinson's disease.
In the late 1940s, Mr. Palaigos joined his father-in-law's Annapolis business, Brunswick Billiards. He soon took over the pool hall, which became widely known as Pete's Place.
After a major renovation in 1987, the business became a sports bar and restaurant. He retired in the mid-1990s.
Over the years, he had sponsored many local amateur sports teams.
Mr. Palaigos, the son of Greek immigrants, was born in the Bronx, N.Y.
He served in the Army in North Africa and Europe during World War II and participated in the Normandy invasion. His decorations included the Bronze Star and the Purple Heart.
He was a member and former president of Saints Constantine and Helen Greek Orthodox Church in Annapolis.
Survivors include his wife of 59 years, Helen Pappas Palaigos of Annapolis; three children, Melanie P. Brock of Annapolis, Effie P. Reed of Kilgore, Tex., and Anthony P. Palaigos of Catonsville, Md.; a sister; a brother; and five grandchildren.
-- Adam Bernstein