TRAPNELL, Fortunata Sydnor

TRAPNELL, Fortunata Sydnor[1, 2, 3]

Female 1929 - 1991  (61 years)

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  • Name TRAPNELL, Fortunata Sydnor 
    Birth 24 Jun 1929  Richmond, VA, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [4
    Gender Female 
    Also Known As Fortune  [5
    Occupation Editor in Publishing Industry. Science researcher-reporter for Time Inc.  [6
    Residence 1966  107 W 11th Street, New York, NY USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [4
    Cause of Death Brain tumor  [6
    Death 17 Mar 1991  Sharon, Litchfield, CT USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [3, 7
    Person ID I998  Hugh Byrne and Nanette Asimov Lines
    Last Modified 18 Feb 2019 

    Father TRAPNELL, Nicholas McLean,   b. 30 Dec 1900, El Mora, New Jersey Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 21 Jan 1953, Richmond, VA, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 52 years) 
    Mother KIRKPATRICK, Fortunata,   b. 2 Jun 1900, Ft Myer, Arlington VA USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 9 Mar 1945, Richmond, VA, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 44 years) 
    Marriage 15 Jun 1921  Philadelphia, Philadelplhia, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [8, 9
    Notes 
    • From United States Army and Navy Journal and Gazette of the Regular and Volunteer Forces:

      Col. Thomas Jellis Kirkpatrick, U.S.A., retired, and Mrs. Kirkpatrick, announce the marriage of their daughter, Fortunata, to Mr. Nicholas McLean Trapnell on June 15, 1921, at Philadelphia, Pa. After a brief wedding trip at Atlantic City, Mr. and Mrs. Trapnell visited the home of the bridegroom's father, Mr. Benjamin Trapnell. Their permanent address for the next few months will be 120 Walnut street, Alexandria, Va. Both Mr. and Mrs. Trapnell belong to old and distinguished Virginia families and they both have numerous friends and relatives in Army and Navy circles. Mr. Trapnell has completed a course in mechanical engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology, where he made a specialty of IDiesel engines. He is at present engaged in the installation of marine Diesel engines for one of the large shipbuilding companies.



      From Alexandria Gazette: Col and Mrs. Thomas J Kirkpatrick, announce the marriage of their daughter, Fortunata, to Mr. Nicholas McLean Trapnell, in Philadelphia, yesterday afternoon. [9, 10]
    Family ID F399  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family VANDERSCHMIDT, Thomas W,   b. 11 Feb 1936, New York, New York, New York, United States of America Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 23 Jul 2003, Sharon, Litchfield, CT USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 67 years) 
    Marriage 6 Jun 1966  Newfane, Windham, VT USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 7
    Notes 
    • Interesting piece from Sports Illustrated, circa 1983. Thomas working in Art Director role, and also mentions his wife, Fortunata, as an Editor at Discover Magazine.

      Original article archive found here: https://www.si.com/vault/1983/09/01/644090/letter-from-the-publisher

      I learned pretty quick that I couldn't eat and paint at the same time," says Tom Vanderschmidt of his days as an aspiring abstract expressionist in 1950s New York City. "Between classes at Cooper Union, I used to hang out at the old Cedar Bar in Greenwich Village. It was the closest thing to an artists' bo?Æte you could find in America—Franz Kline, Jackson Pollock and that crowd were there—and I hoped to pick up some pointers on painting. But all they did was slosh whiskey and argue about what pony to bet in the seventh at Aqueduct."

      A mite disillusioned, Vanderschmidt channeled his creative impulses in other directions—first as a copy boy at TIME, later as a member of SPORTS ILLUSTRATED's art staff and then as our associate director of photography. Tom left the staff in 1978 to freelance but returned last year to serve as art director of our first Football Spectacular. This year he returned for another hitch, working closely with football editors Joe Marshall (pro) and Bill Colson (college), Deputy Production Manager George Infante, Copy Coordinator Kate Scott and the picture staff. Tom's job: to oversee the entire "look" of the issue. "Abstract expressionism it ain't," he says. "Actually, it's more like concrete dynamism."

      For a man who has to sift through some 2,000 pictures to find those precious few that convey the essence of America's most slambang sport, it may seem odd that Vanderschmidt, 47, never saw a football game until he was in his late 30s. "I know how to play cricket, though," he says. "I'll bet you don't." That's because he spent most of his childhood in England. His father, Fred Vanderschmidt, was a foreign correspondent and bureau chief in London for the Associated Press and Newsweek and eventually became chief of Newsweek's European correspondents. "There was a special mystique about foreign correspondents in those days," he says. "My dad had a trench coat, a Bogie hat, the works."

      Vanderschmidt's European boyhood left its marks: He developed a taste for Continental cuisine and foreign sports cars. He is the proud papa of a '67 Lancia Fulvia in British racing green that currently resides in semiretirement at his country place in Sharon, Conn. "The town recently raised my property tax on that car from $2.50 to $70," he complains. "They said a machine of that marque and vintage is constantly gaining in value." The tax on haute cuisine is paid in pounds, not dollars. "I do all the cooking in the family," Vanderschmidt says, "from pot-au-feu to pastries. I got started as a kid. We had a villa in Cannes, so I was corrupted early. English cooking is of course dreadful, and my mother didn't care much for kitchens, so when we got back to Britain I'd mess around with the pots and pans trying to recapture the tastes we'd had to leave behind in the South of France."


      The family he cooks for these days includes his mellifluously named wife, Fortunata Sydnor Trapnell Vanderschmidt, who is the assistant managing editor of DISCOVER, and their rambunctious tomcat Booze (so named for his habit of nosing in on Tom's preprandial cocktail). Like many fine chefs, Vanderschmidt pays the price of his art in added girth. "I'm afraid I look like a burgher in a Frans Hals portrait," he says. "But everyone at SI is so fit that someone has to be the exception."

      Not to worry, Tom. There's no sense jogging when you can drive over in your Lancia.
    Family ID F1416  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 16 Feb 2019 

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBirth - 24 Jun 1929 - Richmond, VA, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsResidence - 1966 - 107 W 11th Street, New York, NY USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarriage - 6 Jun 1966 - Newfane, Windham, VT USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - 17 Mar 1991 - Sharon, Litchfield, CT USA Link to Google Earth
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  • Sources 
    1. [S72] Frederica Holmes Trapnell, Joseph Trapnell Descendants, (1964).

    2. [S781] Certificate of Marriage: Thomas Vanderschmidt / F Sydnor Trapnell.

    3. [S779] Fortunata S Vanderschmidt.

    4. [S781] Certificate of Marriage: Thomas Vanderschmidt / F Sydnor Trapnell, ride: F. Sydnor Trapnell-107 W 11th Street-New York, New York-Place of Birth: Richmond, VA.

    5. [S777] Fortunata Kirkpatrick, Daughter of Mary Bryant Kirkpatrick and Col.Thomas J.Kirkpatrick of the United States Army she was born at Fort Myer.Mother of Mary Hebert and Fortunata Sydnor Trapnell.

    6. [S784] Died: Fortunata Sydnor Trapnell Vanderschmidt.

    7. [S305] Sally Trapnell Warthen Tree.

    8. [S776] City News In Brief.

    9. [S778] City News in Brief.

    10. [S783] Army and Navy Journal Incorporated,, Service Weddings.



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