http://gayhistory.wilcoxarchives.org/mediawiki/api.php?action=feedcontributions&feedformat=atom&user=DebrazonGay History - User contributions [en]2026-04-05T06:38:03ZUser contributionsMediaWiki 1.31.0http://gayhistory.wilcoxarchives.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=Watter,_Hal&diff=3359Watter, Hal2009-12-13T20:55:27Z<p>Debrazon: Imported from Wikispaces</p>
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<div>'''NAME: Hal Watter<br />
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Biography:''' [[http://173.160.74.170:591/FMRes/FMPro?-db=search%20the%20quilt.fp5&-sortfield=block%20number&PMDB%20Online%3a%3aPanel%20Listing=hal%20watter&-format=ZFormVw.htm&-lay=Large%20Display&-max=1&-skip=0&-token=25&-find|His AIDS Quilt is here.]]<br />
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Date of Birth: 1958<br />
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Date of Death (delete if non-applicable): 1989<br />
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Age at Death (delete if non-applicable): 31<br />
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Employment: March of Dimes; B'nai Brith<br />
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Social/Political Groups he attends/attended: From All Walks of Life (now AIDS Walk Philly, aka AIDS Fund)<br />
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His friends include: (type your name here, or names of others) Debra D'Alessandro; John Green, John Magnum; Heshie Zinman<br />
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Testimonials to him (add a space before a new testimonial): Hal was on the board of the first "From All Walks of Life" in 1987. I was volunteering administrative help to the board, so that's where I met Hal. His previous work on the March of Dimes walk-a-thon was so helpful to the planning of that first year -- he knew how many port-a-potties we needed for the distance of the walk, and other key logistics! He lived in Locust Point apartments, and was raised in Cherry Hill, NJ. He had a sharp wit and a cackling laugh. When he died, his parents didn't want anyone to know it was AIDS (his dad was a chiropractor and thought he would lose business if it was known), which made his volunteer work with the Walk invisible. A group of us know knew him from that work went to his funeral, and I remember feeling like an important part of Hal had been erased. He was the first friend I lost to AIDS. With loving memories, Debra D'Alessandro<br />
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