Marion Ceruti Ph.D.

Ancestors

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Biography

Marion Ceruti Ph.D. has Jewish Roots.

Marion Ceruti Ph.D. is a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution.

Marion Ceruti Ph.D. has English ancestors.

Marion is the 1C19R and 5C24R of King Edward III.

Descendant of Sir Anthony Deane, MP, a noted naval architect for His Majesty, King Charles II.

Marion Ceruti Ph.D. has Scottish Ancestors.

Marion Ceruti Ph.D. has Welsh ancestors.

Marion Ceruti Ph.D. has French origins.

Descendant of Charlemagne (Karolus Magnus)|King of France.

Descendant of Hildegarde|wife of Charlemagne (Karolus Magnus).

Marion Ceruti Ph.D. is the descendant of a Huguenot emigrant.

Marion Ceruti Ph.D. has African ancestry.

Marion Ceruti Ph.D. is a part of US Black heritage.

Marion Ceruti Ph.D. is the descendant of a New Netherland settler.

Descendant of Capt. James Stillwell, I (1804-1879) Staten Island, New York ferry service.

Descendant of Thomas Hildreth|9th great grand daughter.

Descendant of Abd Manaf ibn Quṣai|41st great grand daughter.

Marion Ceruti Ph.D. is a Californian.

Marion Ceruti Ph.D. is a New Yorker.

Marion Ceruti Ph.D. participated with Team Twisted Thistles during the 2021 Connect-a-Thon, and has added 52 connections.

Marion Ceruti Ph.D. participated with Team Twisted Thistles during the 2020 Connect-a-Thon, and has added 33 connections.

Marion Ceruti Ph.D. participated with The Wizards of Aus during the 2019 Connect-a-Thon.

Marion Ceruti Ph.D. survived a hurricane at sea in September 1962.

Marion was a Girl Scout

Marion was a Gardner

Family

Marion is the daughter of William Ceruti and Lucille Dawson. She married William F. Hoover, Jr. on New Year's Day in 1989. Now everyone can celebrate their anniversary while celebrating the new year!

Education

She earned a BS in Chemistry from SUNY Stonybrook, 1973; and the Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) in 1979. Her dissertation involved laser spectroscopy of molecules in the gas phase, using computers not only for data analysis but also for data acquisition.

Career

Dr. Marion Ceruti’s career at Navy Laboratories started at the Naval Ocean Systems Center (NOSC), and continued with NRaD and ended at the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center (SSC) Pacific. She was hired at NOSC as a physicist in June 1979. The first project was the blue-green laser downlink program, which resulted in NOSC TR 470 published that year. Taking assignment with the marine-mammals division in the Naval Ocean Systems Center Hawai'i laboratory on O'ahu, her next projects were associated with animal behavior and capabilities. She was a US Navy research diver and helped perform underwater experiments to test new devices based on advanced technology. In 1987 she transferred to the NOSC laboratory in San Diego, California, where she continued her interest in computing and became an internationally recognized leader in information management. Dr. Ceruti also supported the chemical- and biological-weapons defense community, having joined the Tactical Situation-Assessment Technology (TSAT) team, whose objectives included scientific and technical advances in the area of visual language, and chemical and biological weapons defense.

Professional Publications and Awards

Dr. Ceruti's early projects resulted in publications on echolocation, marine-mammal chemoreception and biochemistry, e.g. NOSC Technical Report 930 and a journal article in Comparative Physiology. As she developed her background in acoustics, she supported the aural enhancement of active sonobuoys and conducted time-separation pitch psycho-acoustic experiments, which resulted in several conference presentations and an article in the Journal of Applied Acoustics on how to train blind people to navigate in the absence of object cues. After transferring to the NOSC laboratory in San Diego, she received numerous invitations to write book chapters and journal articles, as well as invitations to speak in international meetings. For example, she wrote invited book chapters in the Handbook of Local Area Networks, the Handbook of Data Management, and Heterogeneous Information Exchange and Organizational Hubs. She delivered invited papers, for example, at the IEEE COMPSAC98 in Vienna and at the BMi defense conference in London, United Kingdom. Also a conference organizer, she was general chair of the Naval Security Group's and the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association (AFCEA)'s Federal Database Colloquium for 14 years. She managed a four-year program sponsored, in part, by the Office of Naval Research (ONR). The program, Knowledge Management for Distributed-Tracking (KMDT) was focused on data fusion, de-clutter, simplification of tactical information in command centers during naval warfare. This program resulted in many more publications, some in international conference proceedings, and a publication award. Dr. Ceruti published various papers on the next-generation chemical and biological sensors and their data fusion. Her paper topics have varied from soft-computing methods for diagnose and prediction of glaucoma, to the use of Maya hieroglyphics for military communications. Her publication-of-the-year award in 2003 was for her first paper in the Infodynamics series titled “States of Matter and States of Information.” Infodynamics is the information equivalent of thermodynamics, which includes other dynamic quantities in addition to entropy. Since then, she published five other papers on Infodynamics, one of which, an invited journal article resulted in a publication award of honorable mention. With the TSAT team, her haptic data-glove invention has won many awards. Out of over 120 publications, 23 have generated awards. Dr. Ceruti’s awards include: Cold War Service Certificate for service to the United States during the "Cold War;" Seven Honorable-Mention Publication awards between 1995 and 2010; Publication Award of Excellence, 1999; Distinguished Achievement in Project Accomplishment, 2000; Group Achievement Award of Merit, 2002; Distinguished Achievement in Leadership, 2005; Distinguished Team Achievement Award, 2006; Exemplary Civilian Service Achievement Award, 2008; 30-year Service Award, 2009; Federal Laboratory Consortium Far West Region award for outstanding technology development, 2009; Patent Application: “Wireless Haptic Glove for Language and Information Transference,” Navy Case No. 99084, 2009; Team SPAWAR Innovation Award for Science and Technology Product, Process or Service, 2010; Navy Meritorious Civilian Service Award, 2010; Patent: “Hall-Effect Sensor System for Gesture Recognition, Information Coding and Processing,” US 8,421,448 B1 awarded 16 Apr 2013.

Hobbies and Personal Interests

While at the NOSC Hawai'i laboratory she continued here life-long interests in surfing, diving, writing, and music. She also developed an interest in flying, having earned an FAA commercial glider-pilot's license with single-engine land privileges. She also became a flight instructor and joined the Civil Air Patrol where she became a safety officer at the state level. She is a member of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, Suffolk Chapter, New York. She is also a member of the Hildreth Family Association. Dr. Ceruti is a charter member of the Historical Diving Society, having descended from the inventor of the diving helmet, Charles Anthony Deane. Decades after transferring to San Diego, she produced two compact discs mainly of Italian renaissance music and baroque music, which also included original compositions. She resides with her husband of over 30 years on Maui, Hawai'i, USA. She is an ordained minister with the Universal Life Church Monastery, a non-sectarian organization. Dr. Ceruti is a speaker and organizer for a study group that is focused on spiritual practice and experience. She is a member of the Kent, UK team. [1], and the Glamorgan team of the Wales focus group.

Relation to Famous Historical Figures

Direct descent from Magna Carta Surety Barons

Roger le Bigod, Earl of Norfolk (Bigod-2)

Hugh le Bigod, (later Earl of Norfolk) (Bigod-1)

John de Lacy, Earl of Lincoln and Constable of Chester, (Lacy-284)

Saher de Quincy, Earl of Winchester (Quincy-226)

Richard de Clare, Earl of Hertford (Clare-58)

Direct descent or cousin through Hannah Jessup (Jessup-164) and Robert Hopton MP (Hopton-39).

Gilbert de Clare (later Earl of Gloucester and Hertford)

Robert de Roos (Ros)

Robert de Vere, Earl of Oxford

Direct descent from Charlemagne, Kings of France, (Carolingian-77) and his wife Hildegarde. - 36th great grand daughter

Third cousin 41 times removed from the Prophet Muhamad, PBUH, through the Hopton line, Elizabeth Wingfield, Alfonse II (Barcelona-13) and his great great grandfather, Abd Manaf ibn Quṣai (Ibn_Quṣai-1). Direct descendant of Marwan ibn al-Hakam ibn Abi al-As ibn Umayya, aka Marwan I, Governor of Medina and fourth Umayyad Caliph of Damascus.

Patricius Ap Calpurnius, aka St. Patrick - 44th great grand niece. [2]

St. Volodymyr Sviatoslavich, the Great, Prince of Novgorod, Grand Prince of Kiev, and ruler of Kievan Rus (b. 961-d. 1015) (Рюриковичи-2) - 32nd great grand daughter.

Abigail Hopton Stillwell (Hopton-53) - 8th great grand daughter and 8th cousin 13x removed (8C3R) through the Hannah Jessup (Jessup-164) line. According to Hetty Stillwell Lee's (Stillwell-1231) genealogy, Abigail was the first wife of Lt. Nicholas Stillwell (Stillwell-18) and the mother of Capt. Richard Stillwell (Stillwell-148) and Capt. Nicholas Stillwell III (Stillwell-52). Some say that Abigail did not exist, but someone must have been the mother of the two captains.

Research Notes

Some of the data in the United States Public Records, 1970-2009 are factually wrong. The record states that on 15 Nov. 2007 my residence was in Eastport, Suffolk, New York, United States. Actually, my residence on that date was in San Diego, California, USA. The entry regarding my previous residence of Eastport, Suffolk, New York, United States 11941 is correct.

Sources

• First-hand observation, family records, DAR records, Stillwell family records. Entered by Marion Ceruti at registration.
• Certificate of Marriage Registration, record number 483, dated 27 January, 1989, Town of Riverhead, New York, Office of the Town Clerk. Signed by the Deputy Town Clerk, Nadia Moore (handwriting ambiguous - could be "Moole").
• Research Gate Web Page, Marion Ceruti [3]
• Amor Fortuna CD, Marion Ceruti, All Music [4]
• Le Dame Musicanti CD, Marion Ceruti & Donatella Gillette, All Music [5]
• Abd Manaf ibn Qusai, Wikipedia [6]
• Marwan I, Wikipedia [7]
• "United States Public Records, 1970-2009", database, FamilySearch [8] entered 28 July 2020, Marion Ceruti, 2007.
• [HSL, 1931] ”Stillwell" compiled by Hetty Stillwell Lee. October 1931. Excerpts were distributed at the Stillwell Family Reunions held in New York City during the first half of the 20th century. In addition to her own family observations and private communications with various cousins, Hetty Stillwell Lee used sources from the New York Public Library, the Long Island Historical Society, and church records and from a family Bible. These sources included records from Staten Island regarding the early Stillwell family in the New York area. The titles of two documents were cited among the sources: 1. "Memoirs of the Stilwell family" and 2. “Notes on the Descendants of Nicholas Stillwell, the Ancestor of the Stillwell Family in America.” The first document was not found during extensive searches, whereas the second document is believed with reasonable certainty to be [WHS, 1883]. That either document could have been [Benjamin Marshall Stillwell's document (BMS), 1878] has been ruled out by the fact that some of the key information in [BMS, 1878] is inconsistent with [HSL, 1931]. The second document cited in [HSL, 1931] has been located and is present in the collections of major libraries. The complete citation of the second document, [WHS, 1883], is given below on the reference list. [2] N.B. Copies of [HSL, 1931] were distributed at the annual Stillwell Family Reunions, which were held from ca. 1923 to ca. 1948, mostly in the Woodstock Hotel in New York City. At least one copy of the document was received by about 50 Stillwell descendants who attended at least one reunion dinner. Many more copies could be in other private collections maintained by other Stillwell family historians. Therefore, it is not fair to say that Hetty Stillwell Lee's document resides solely in the collection of profile manager and family historian, Marion Ceruti, since anyone who attended the reunions is presumed to have received a copy, which could be in the possession of his or her descendent(s). It is fair to say that almost no adult who attended the last reunion is still living.
• [WHS, 1883] Stillwell, William Henry, Notes on the Descendants of Nicholas Stillwell, the Ancestor of the Stillwell Family in America, E.W. Nash Publisher, 80 Nassau St. New York, 1883, 64 pp. (references to surname "Lake").

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