hnobotany programs at the New York Botanical Garden as well as at Fairfield and Bridgeport University. He Who Stands Firm (Nicholas A. Shoumatoff) graduated from St. Pauls School in Concord, New Hampshire. He attended Stanford University in Palo Alto, CA and Oxford University in England where he studied Chinese. At Pembroke College he lived in the same building with Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche whom he befriended, continuing his life-long interest in Buddhism. He later helped the first Kagyu lamas to move into the area, first in Putnam County and then in Woodstock. He also organized the first Vajra crown ceremony for His Holiness 16th Karmapa at the Bedford Hills Community House. Shoumatoff, known as He Who, also worked for the New York State park system, at Fahnstock and Mills Norrie State Park where he created interpretive trail mapping. Among He Who's relatives are Elizabeth Shoumatoff, painter of the renowned unfinished portrait of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, his great uncle, Andrey Avinoff, Director of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, and his father Nicholas Shoumatoff, author of books on Central Asia and Switzerland. Surviving relatives include nature journalist and author, Alex Shoumatoff, and Tonia Shoumatoff, of the Millbrook Independent and former host of Planet Blue at WVKR at Vassar College and Victoria Ward, artist in Glen Cove, along with six nieces and nephews. Memorial arrangements will take place at the Trailside Nature Museum on October 14th at 2 p.m.
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