Watertown Daily Times (NY) — Saturday, October 26, 1991
Arthur C. "Art" Standley, 59, Dorchester, Mass., a native of Watertown, social worker and community volunteer, died Oct. 11 in Beth Israel Hospital, Boston, Mass., after suffering an apparent heart attack.
A memorial service was held Oct. 19 in Dorchester, with special services to be held later in his native Northern New York, followed by burial of his ashes in El Salvador.
Contributions may be made to the Dorchester Committee on Central America and the Caribbean, 14 Brent St., Dorchester, Mass., or to the Ainsworth Memorial Library, P.O. Box 69, Sandy Creek, N.Y. 13145, for Central American resources development.
Surviving are a sister, Marie K. Parsons, Sandy Creek; a foster son, Carl Taylor, Dorchester, and many cousins in Northern and Central New York.
He was born July 25, 1932, in Watertown, a son of Arthur C. Standley and Eleanor B. Wager Standley Elliot, who died in 1939 and 1975, respectively. His stepfather was the late Walter Elliot of St. Lawrence County, later of Adams and Utica.
Mr. Standley graduated from St. Mary's Academy, Ogdensburg, in 1950 and from LeMoyne College, Syracuse, in 1954. He served in the Army from 1954 to 1957, as a signal school instructor.
Mr. Standley taught in New York State high schools and worked as an optical technician and engineer before moving in the early 1960s to the Boston area, where he was first employed as a youth worker and later as a teacher and social organizer. He served as a VISTA volunteer with the Dorchester Tenants' Action Council in the area of tenant and welfare organization, and in several capacities with Denison House.
In 1971, he earned a master's degree in social work in community organization from the Boston University School of Social Work and later taught there for several years. He became a school bus driver in the city of Boston in 1983, and was an active member and officer in the United States Steel Workers Local 8751. At the time of his death he was chief shop steward of the Bayside Yard and a member of the executive board of the Boston School Bus Drivers' union, having recently conducted a campaign for union president which, though unsuccessful, served as the most recent focus of his long involvement with labor, political and social activism.
Politically, he had served as a city of Boston Ward 15 Democratic Committee associate member and as a volunteer for the Mel King for Mayor campaigns of 1979 and 1983 and the 1981 district representation race.
Mr. Standley's community volunteer career included service on the Uphams Corner Health Committee which he helped to organize, the Medical Committee on Human Rights, Statewide Rent Control Task Force, North Dorchester Tenants' Organizing Committee, Greater Boston Tenants and Workers Against Racism, Racial Unity Now, All City Organization, Boston Peoples Organization, Boston Rainbow Coalition, Dorchester Committee on Central America and the Caribbean, Central America Solidarity Association and the Smedley Butler Brigade of the Veterans for Peace.
Mr. Standley traveled to Nicaragua once and to El Salvador three times as a union member representing the solidarity of American trade unionists with the working people of Central America. In 1990 in El Salvador he accompanied Jorge Amaya, the leader of the Salvadoran Hospital Workers' Union, as protection against Mr. Amaya's possible assassination by Salvadoran security forces.
Arthur C. "Art" Standley, 59, Dorchester, Mass., a native of Watertown, social worker and community volunteer, died Oct. 11 in Beth Israel Hospital, Boston, Mass., after suffering an apparent heart attack.
A memorial service was held Oct. 19 in Dorchester, with special services to be held later in his native Northern New York, followed by burial of his ashes in El Salvador.
Contributions may be made to the Dorchester Committee on Central America and the Caribbean, 14 Brent St., Dorchester, Mass., or to the Ainsworth Memorial Library, P.O. Box 69, Sandy Creek, N.Y. 13145, for Central American resources development.
Surviving are a sister, Marie K. Parsons, Sandy Creek; a foster son, Carl Taylor, Dorchester, and many cousins in Northern and Central New York.
He was born July 25, 1932, in Watertown, a son of Arthur C. Standley and Eleanor B. Wager Standley Elliot, who died in 1939 and 1975, respectively. His stepfather was the late Walter Elliot of St. Lawrence County, later of Adams and Utica.
Mr. Standley graduated from St. Mary's Academy, Ogdensburg, in 1950 and from LeMoyne College, Syracuse, in 1954. He served in the Army from 1954 to 1957, as a signal school instructor.
Mr. Standley taught in New York State high schools and worked as an optical technician and engineer before moving in the early 1960s to the Boston area, where he was first employed as a youth worker and later as a teacher and social organizer. He served as a VISTA volunteer with the Dorchester Tenants' Action Council in the area of tenant and welfare organization, and in several capacities with Denison House.
In 1971, he earned a master's degree in social work in community organization from the Boston University School of Social Work and later taught there for several years. He became a school bus driver in the city of Boston in 1983, and was an active member and officer in the United States Steel Workers Local 8751. At the time of his death he was chief shop steward of the Bayside Yard and a member of the executive board of the Boston School Bus Drivers' union, having recently conducted a campaign for union president which, though unsuccessful, served as the most recent focus of his long involvement with labor, political and social activism.
Politically, he had served as a city of Boston Ward 15 Democratic Committee associate member and as a volunteer for the Mel King for Mayor campaigns of 1979 and 1983 and the 1981 district representation race.
Mr. Standley's community volunteer career included service on the Uphams Corner Health Committee which he helped to organize, the Medical Committee on Human Rights, Statewide Rent Control Task Force, North Dorchester Tenants' Organizing Committee, Greater Boston Tenants and Workers Against Racism, Racial Unity Now, All City Organization, Boston Peoples Organization, Boston Rainbow Coalition, Dorchester Committee on Central America and the Caribbean, Central America Solidarity Association and the Smedley Butler Brigade of the Veterans for Peace.
Mr. Standley traveled to Nicaragua once and to El Salvador three times as a union member representing the solidarity of American trade unionists with the working people of Central America. In 1990 in El Salvador he accompanied Jorge Amaya, the leader of the Salvadoran Hospital Workers' Union, as protection against Mr. Amaya's possible assassination by Salvadoran security forces.
Watertown Daily Times (NY) — Saturday, October 26, 1991
Arthur C. "Art" Standley, 59, Dorchester, Mass., a native of Watertown, social worker and community volunteer, died Oct. 11 in Beth Israel Hospital, Boston, Mass., after suffering an apparent heart attack.
A memorial service was held Oct. 19 in Dorchester, with special services to be held later in his native Northern New York, followed by burial of his ashes in El Salvador.
Contributions may be made to the Dorchester Committee on Central America and the Caribbean, 14 Brent St., Dorchester, Mass., or to the Ainsworth Memorial Library, P.O. Box 69, Sandy Creek, N.Y. 13145, for Central American resources development.
Surviving are a sister, Marie K. Parsons, Sandy Creek; a foster son, Carl Taylor, Dorchester, and many cousins in Northern and Central New York.
He was born July 25, 1932, in Watertown, a son of Arthur C. Standley and Eleanor B. Wager Standley Elliot, who died in 1939 and 1975, respectively. His stepfather was the late Walter Elliot of St. Lawrence County, later of Adams and Utica.
Mr. Standley graduated from St. Mary's Academy, Ogdensburg, in 1950 and from LeMoyne College, Syracuse, in 1954. He served in the Army from 1954 to 1957, as a signal school instructor.
Mr. Standley taught in New York State high schools and worked as an optical technician and engineer before moving in the early 1960s to the Boston area, where he was first employed as a youth worker and later as a teacher and social organizer. He served as a VISTA volunteer with the Dorchester Tenants' Action Council in the area of tenant and welfare organization, and in several capacities with Denison House.
In 1971, he earned a master's degree in social work in community organization from the Boston University School of Social Work and later taught there for several years. He became a school bus driver in the city of Boston in 1983, and was an active member and officer in the United States Steel Workers Local 8751. At the time of his death he was chief shop steward of the Bayside Yard and a member of the executive board of the Boston School Bus Drivers' union, having recently conducted a campaign for union president which, though unsuccessful, served as the most recent focus of his long involvement with labor, political and social activism.
Politically, he had served as a city of Boston Ward 15 Democratic Committee associate member and as a volunteer for the Mel King for Mayor campaigns of 1979 and 1983 and the 1981 district representation race.
Mr. Standley's community volunteer career included service on the Uphams Corner Health Committee which he helped to organize, the Medical Committee on Human Rights, Statewide Rent Control Task Force, North Dorchester Tenants' Organizing Committee, Greater Boston Tenants and Workers Against Racism, Racial Unity Now, All City Organization, Boston Peoples Organization, Boston Rainbow Coalition, Dorchester Committee on Central America and the Caribbean, Central America Solidarity Association and the Smedley Butler Brigade of the Veterans for Peace.
Mr. Standley traveled to Nicaragua once and to El Salvador three times as a union member representing the solidarity of American trade unionists with the working people of Central America. In 1990 in El Salvador he accompanied Jorge Amaya, the leader of the Salvadoran Hospital Workers' Union, as protection against Mr. Amaya's possible assassination by Salvadoran security forces.
Arthur C. "Art" Standley, 59, Dorchester, Mass., a native of Watertown, social worker and community volunteer, died Oct. 11 in Beth Israel Hospital, Boston, Mass., after suffering an apparent heart attack.
A memorial service was held Oct. 19 in Dorchester, with special services to be held later in his native Northern New York, followed by burial of his ashes in El Salvador.
Contributions may be made to the Dorchester Committee on Central America and the Caribbean, 14 Brent St., Dorchester, Mass., or to the Ainsworth Memorial Library, P.O. Box 69, Sandy Creek, N.Y. 13145, for Central American resources development.
Surviving are a sister, Marie K. Parsons, Sandy Creek; a foster son, Carl Taylor, Dorchester, and many cousins in Northern and Central New York.
He was born July 25, 1932, in Watertown, a son of Arthur C. Standley and Eleanor B. Wager Standley Elliot, who died in 1939 and 1975, respectively. His stepfather was the late Walter Elliot of St. Lawrence County, later of Adams and Utica.
Mr. Standley graduated from St. Mary's Academy, Ogdensburg, in 1950 and from LeMoyne College, Syracuse, in 1954. He served in the Army from 1954 to 1957, as a signal school instructor.
Mr. Standley taught in New York State high schools and worked as an optical technician and engineer before moving in the early 1960s to the Boston area, where he was first employed as a youth worker and later as a teacher and social organizer. He served as a VISTA volunteer with the Dorchester Tenants' Action Council in the area of tenant and welfare organization, and in several capacities with Denison House.
In 1971, he earned a master's degree in social work in community organization from the Boston University School of Social Work and later taught there for several years. He became a school bus driver in the city of Boston in 1983, and was an active member and officer in the United States Steel Workers Local 8751. At the time of his death he was chief shop steward of the Bayside Yard and a member of the executive board of the Boston School Bus Drivers' union, having recently conducted a campaign for union president which, though unsuccessful, served as the most recent focus of his long involvement with labor, political and social activism.
Politically, he had served as a city of Boston Ward 15 Democratic Committee associate member and as a volunteer for the Mel King for Mayor campaigns of 1979 and 1983 and the 1981 district representation race.
Mr. Standley's community volunteer career included service on the Uphams Corner Health Committee which he helped to organize, the Medical Committee on Human Rights, Statewide Rent Control Task Force, North Dorchester Tenants' Organizing Committee, Greater Boston Tenants and Workers Against Racism, Racial Unity Now, All City Organization, Boston Peoples Organization, Boston Rainbow Coalition, Dorchester Committee on Central America and the Caribbean, Central America Solidarity Association and the Smedley Butler Brigade of the Veterans for Peace.
Mr. Standley traveled to Nicaragua once and to El Salvador three times as a union member representing the solidarity of American trade unionists with the working people of Central America. In 1990 in El Salvador he accompanied Jorge Amaya, the leader of the Salvadoran Hospital Workers' Union, as protection against Mr. Amaya's possible assassination by Salvadoran security forces.
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