Path: bloom-picayune.mit.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!americast.com!americast.com!americast-post Newsgroups: americast.twt.metro From: americast-post@AmeriCast.Com Organization: American Cybercasting Approved: americast-post@AmeriCast.com Subject: Frederic Heutte, 65, Statehood Party founder Date: Thu, 19 Nov 92 15:23:03 EST Message-ID: \SE B;METROPOLITAN;OBITUARIES \HD Frederic Heutte, 65, Statehood Party founder \BY Pam Weisz \CR THE WASHINGTON TIMES Frederic Heutte, 65, co-founder of the D.C. Statehood Party and the fine arts and music librarian at the University of Maryland, died Nov. 19 after a fire at his Northeast home. Firefighters found Mr. Heutte unconscious in his home in the 1600 block of Newton Street NE about 1:20 a.m. He died at Providence Hospital a short time later. An autopsy is being performed, but a hospital spokeswoman said the cause of death was probably smoke inhalation. Mr. Heutte, the late Julius Hobson and others founded the D.C. Statehood Party in 1970. Mr. Heutte was also a co-founder of the Ward 5 Statehood Committee in 1972 and helped form the Emergency Committee on Transportation Crisis, which successfully worked in the early 1970s to prevent a freeway from coming through the District. Josephine D. Butler, who led the Statehood Party from 1976 to 1988, praised Mr. Heutte's "superb activities around . . . organizing and promoting statehood." A native of Fall River, Mass., he moved to Norfolk when he was 9. Mr. Heutte spent two years in the Marines at Quantico, where he played saxophone in the Marine Band. He attended what is now Old Dominion University and the University of Miami, where he earned a bachelor's degree in music. He won two national music awards while in school. In 1951, he moved to Washington to pursue a master's degree in music history and composition at Catholic University. He worked at the D.C. Public Library as a music librarian, then spent more than 30 years as the fine arts and music librarian at the University of Maryland at College Park. Mr. Heutte retired in 1987. He was "very, very active civically, very involved," his son Joseph said. He was secretary of the Upper Northeast Coordinating Council, was active in the Brookland Historical Society and was a member of the parish council at Brookland's St. Anthony's Catholic Church, where he had been choir director since 1955. The Rev. Jesse Jackson, one of the District's "shadow" senators, said Mr. Heutte "was a wonderful and gentle man who committed his life to achieving D.C. statehood and other worthy social-justice issues." "We would not have progressed to the level we are at today without his indispensable contribution to the statehood effort through his benevolent grass-roots activism and educational efforts," Mr. Jackson said. In addition to Joseph, who lives in Baltimore, survivors include his wife, Anne; two daughters, Anne Katherine Kelly of Riverdale and Frances Schaefer of Chapel Hill, N.C.; and two sons, Frederic of Portland, Ore., and Thomas of College Park. A wake will be held tomorrow from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. at St. Anthony's. Services will be held there at 11 a.m. Saturday, with burial in Mount Olivet Cemetery. This article is copyright 1992 The Washington Times. Redistribution to other sites is not permitted except by arrangement with American Cybercasting Corporation. For more information, send-email to usa@AmeriCast.COM