The Washington Post, January 6th, 2008
A.E. Griffith Bates Jr., 77, a former systems analyst for the Defense Mapping Agency and a longtime volunteer for Greenpeace, died of pulmonary fibrosis Jan. 1 at the Community Hospice of Washington. Mr. Bates logged more than 25,000 hours of volunteer work with Greenpeace after his retirement in 1991. He set up the environmental advocacy organization's archive system for images, documents and memorabilia at a time when the group had no internal record-retention systems. He also volunteered in the finance department, not considered a glamorous post for volunteers. The nonprofit group Public C...
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