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Jake Burton Carpenter, Who Ushered in Snowboarding as a Sport, Dies at 65

After his fascination with the Snurfer, a crude version of a snowboard created in the 1960s, he built the first successful snowboard company.

Edmund Carpenter, Archaeologist and Anthropologist, Dies at 88

Mr. Carpenter did groundbreaking work in anthropological filmmaking and ethnomusicology and, with his friend Marshall McLuhan, laid the foundations of modern media studies.

Harry Carpenter, the ‘Voice of Boxing’ in Britain, Dies at 84

Mr. Carpenter was a BBC sportscaster who announced some of the biggest fights in boxing’s history, including the “Rumble in the Jungle” in 1974.

Liz Carpenter, Journalist, Feminist and Johnson Aide, Dies at 89

Ms. Carpenter spent much of her life working in Washington as a newspaper reporter, an aide to Lyndon B. Johnson and press secretary to Lady Bird Johnson.

Ralph E. Carpenter, 99, Dies; Restored Landmarks

Mr. Carpenter was a self-taught connoisseur of Colonial furniture and decorative art whose passion for Newport, R.I., spurred him to restore many of its most important 18th-century landmarks.

Paid Notice: Deaths CARPENTER, FRANCIS NEWTON

CARPENTER--Francis Newton, Delray Beach, FL and Greenwich, CT on November 27, 2006. Educated at Collegiate School in New York City, attended Williams College and Bachelor's degree from the University of Virginia. Captain in the second infantry division during WWII, President of Shulton International and chairman and chief executive officer of Westley Associates, former governor of the Apawamis Club in Rye, New York. Survived by wife, Barbara Hayward Carpenter, two daughters: Mrs. Patricia Carpen ...

Humphrey Carpenter, English Biographer, Dies at 58

Humphrey Carpenter, the English writer, editor, radio broadcaster and musician who wrote intimate biographies of Auden, Pound, J.R.R. Tolkien, Dennis Potter and Spike Milligan, among others, died on Jan. 4 in Oxford, England. He was 58. The cause was a pulmonary embolism, Ion Trewin, editor in chief of the publishing house Weidenfeld & Nicolson, said in an article in The Sunday Times of London. Mr. Carpenter had been suffering from Parkinson's disease.

Jake Burton Carpenter, Who Ushered in Snowboarding as a Sport, Dies at 65

After his fascination with the Snurfer, a crude version of a snowboard created in the 1960s, he built the first successful snowboard company.

Obituary: Ralph E. Carpenter

Ralph Emerson Carpenter, 99, Who Helped Restore Historic Buildings in Newport, Dies.

Scott Carpenter, One of the Original Seven Astronauts, Is Dead at 88

Mr. Carpenter’s flight into space was in May 1962. Before the first mission to orbit the Earth, in February that same year, he famously told another astronaut, “Godspeed, John Glenn.”