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1989Year LEAD: Elizabeth Knowlton, a mountain climber who in 1932 became the first woman to climb as high as 20,000 feet in the Himalayas, died of heart disease Sunday at the Ocean Manor Nursing Home in Scituate, Mass., where she lived for the last four years. She was 93 years old and a longtime resident of Cambridge, Elizabeth Knowlton Is Dead at 93

Pioneer of Himalayas in the 30's

1995Year Their paths crossed in New Orleans 35 years ago by accident, or perhaps through fate: a 6-year-old walking through a screaming mob to integrate a public school and a young psychiatrist whose way into the city that day was blocked by the disturbance. The child was Ruby Bridges, whose adult life after the anger and danger and drama of integrating William Frantz School all by herself sometimes seemed as still as a torpid summer day in New Orleans. Child of Courage Joins Her Biographer

Pioneer of Integration Is Honored With the Author She Inspired

1931Year Reeder, J W, 95 REEDER, 95, FRIEND OF HOOVER, IS DEAD

Pioneer of Iowa Held Hat for President at the Inaugural Ceremonies. VOTED FOR FREMONT IN '56 Said to Have Been First to Teach Free School West of the Mississippi --A Veteran of Civil War.

1959Year Christian Bros of Ireland: Bro J A Kelly, 1 of 4 founders of order in US, int on growth BROTHER'S STORY MATCHES ORDER'S

Pioneer of Irish Teachers in U.S. Now Assigned to School in Jersey

1935Year PHILIP KLEIN DEAD

PIONEER OF MONIES; Recently Completed Scenario of p a.n. te,s 'Inferno' With .... : Robert NI. Yost. EA,I_y

1929Year Death AARON BRYLAWSKI, 78, DIES.

Pioneer of Motion-Pieture Industry --Ex-Head of Theatre Chain.

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