Replies

THE GREG CRAIGS

GREGG
PART 1 of 7

Upon learning that Greg Craig, Obama’s White House Counsel, had obtained legal representation, I realized I did not really know much about him. Being mindful of my assignment by Swordmaker (who echos Q,) to “follow the wives,” I’ve also researched and learned a little bit about Greg Craig’s wife, Derry and her family.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregory_B._Craig

Greg Craig was a student at Exeter. He went to Harvard, and reportedly became acquainted with Henry Kissinger and other faculty there. After earning honors there, he became active in anti-Vietnam War and liberal activities. Craig received a medical deferment for a shoulder injury.

He went on to Yale Law school, where some of HIS FELLOW CLASSMATES WERE BILL CLINTON, HILLARY RODHAM, AND DAVID E. KENDALL. Kendall, it will be remembered, was Clinton’s lawyer during the impeachment proceedings.

Craig was on EDWARD M. (TED) KENNEDY’S STAFF, and held other notable positions and worked on prominent cases in his career.

HE WAS ON THE TEAM IN 1981, WHO REPRESENTED JOHN W. HINCKLEY JR. AFTER THE SHOOTING OF PRESIDENT RONALD REAGAN.

In 1996, Bill Clinton offered him the post of White House Counsel, but declined. Secretary of State MADELEINE K. ALBRIGHT APPOINTED CRAIG TO the post of director of policy planning at the State Department in 1997. “In October 1997, Albright gave Craig the additional post of special coordinator for Tibetan affairs, in order “to focus attention on China’s suppression of Tibet’s cultural and religious traditions.””

He accepted a position on Clinton’s IMPEACHMENT DEFENSE counsel team.

He worked with the legal team representing Juan Miguel Gonzales, the Cuban father of six year old ELIAN GONZALEZ, which resulted in Elian’s return to Cuba.

He served as an advisor to the Obama campaign. It is reported in the Wiki article that it had been speculated that he had hoped for Secretary of State, but was offered and ACCEPTED THE POSITION OF WHITE HOUSE COUNSEL. The article lists details of what some of his activities were in that position.

He was subjected to an OUSTER CAMPAIGN, thought to have been spearheaded partly by Rahm Emanuel, who leaked documents, as reported by Nina Totenberg. “Craig’s resignation took effect on January 3, 2010. He became the highest-ranking official to leave the Obama administration up until that point.”

After his resignation, he obtained the position as a Global Policy and Litigation Strategy Practice Group partner for the law firm of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher, and Flom, LLP.

The firm was representing Goldman Sachs, and hired Craig to advise them in their civil lawsuit with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

He also represented JOHN EDWARDS, gaining acquittal, in the misuse of campaign funds in the RIELLE HUNTER cover up case.

And this is where we can sit up and see how the Manafort plea deal exposes the Podesta actions in the Ukraine thereby peeling some onion layers back, … and there is our man Greg right in the middle!

“CRAIG LED A TEAM OF LAWYERS FROM SKADDEN, ARPS WHO WERE COMMISSIONED BY THE GOVERNMENT OF UKRAINE under President Viktor Yanukovich to look into errors in the trial of former Ukrainian prime minister Yulia V. Tymoshenko on abuse-of-power charges.”…”Experts say that Craig should have registered as a foreign agent, as lobbyists are required to do when they lobby on behalf of foreign governments.”

He resigned from the firm of Skadden et al, in April 2018 because one of the firm’s London lawyers was indicted by Mueller, and pleaded guilty to making false statements.

It was reported by CNN and NBC, that following a referral from Mueller’s office, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York was investigating Craig and others, including ex-lobbyist TONY PODESTA and former Republican U.S. Representative Vin Weber, as part of a broader investigation into the activities of Paul Manafort.

Craig is married to DERRY NOYES. They became a couple in 1973 and married in 1974. She is the daughter of ELIOT NOYES, industrial designer known for his work on the IBM typewriter. Derry is a graphic designer.

END PART 1

Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q

THE GREG CRAIGS
DERRY, GREG’S WIFE
GIVEN NAME: MARGARET NOYES CRAIG

PART 2 of 7

https://heavy.com/news/2018/09/greg-craig/

https://www.usps.com/stamps/includes/modals/derry-noyes.html

Her picture:
https://www.usps.com/ContentTemplates/assets/images/stamps/bios/derry-noyes.jpg

Derry comes from a talented family of accomplished artists and very well known creative people.

Her father was Eliot Noyse, known for his fine architecture, and industrial design. He is very well known for his work on the IBM Selectric Typewriter.

Her mother was also an architect and designer. She entertained frequently very notable guests. The four children, Derry and her brothers and sisters have noted that they were required to keep a very orderly home because it was one which their father had designed, and guests would want to examine it closely to the extent of opening cabinets, and such.

Derry Noyse attended Yale University School of Art from 2004-2006. She designs for the US Postal Office, among other clients, who include museums, corporations, foundations, and architectural and educational institutions. She and Greg Craig have five children.

There is not much else found easily about her online. However, her family is quite gifted and successful, and knowing of them contributes to the effort of understanding her. One can certainly see how she and her family could have influenced Greg Craig’s circles of acquaintances and friends and enhanced his career.

Derry’s family members which we shall look at:

Mother: Mary Duncan Weed (Molly) Noyse
Father: Eliot Noyes
Brother: Frederick Noyes
Sister: Mary Duncan Noyes Brust and her husband, Dr. John C. M. Brust
Mary’s Son, Dr. James Charles Morrison Brust
Brother: Eli Noyes

END PART 2

Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q

DERRY CRAIG’S PARENTS
FATHER: ELIOT FETTE NOYES

PART 4 of 7

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliot_Noyes
http://pcad.lib.washington.edu/person/4939/

“Eliot Fette Noyes (August 12, 1910 – July 18, 1977) was a Harvard-trained American architect and industrial designer, who worked on projects for IBM, most notably the IBM Selectric typewriter and the IBM Aerospace Research Center in Los Angeles, California. Noyes was also a pioneer in development of comprehensive corporate-wide design programs that integrated design strategy and business strategy. Noyes worked on corporate imagery for IBM, Mobil Oil, Cummins Engine and Westinghouse…”

He was born in Boston, MA, but spent some of his early years in Colorado. They moved back to Massachusetts where his father, Atherton Noyes, taught English at Harvard. His mother, Margaret Davenport Fette, was “an accomplished pianist.”

Eliot entered Harvard in 1932 to study architecture, changing his mind from painting. There was a group of architect students from Harvard who became quite noted. They are known as “The Harvard Five.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_Five

“The Harvard Five was a group of architects that settled in New Canaan, Connecticut in the 1940s: John M. Johansen, Marcel Breuer, Landis Gores, Philip Johnson and Eliot Noyes. Marcel Breuer was an instructor at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, while Gores, Johansen, Johnson and Noyes were students there…”

As a young man, he enjoyed sail planing. He belonged to a sail planing club. When he joined the Army in WWII, he worked on their sail plane/glider program.

He had a very outstanding architectural career, designing some well known homes, like The Bubble House in Hobe Sound, and the Noyes House, still owned by the family, and other buildings.

He spent 21 years at IBM, and is most noted for his industrial design work on the IBM Selectric Typewriter, and overall corporate design for IBM. He designed a number of their corporate buildings and products. Several are listed on his wiki page, but among them are “the IBM Aerospace Building in Los Angeles, California (1964), the IBM Pavilion Hemisfair in San Antonio, Texas (1968), and the IBM Management Development Center in Armonk, New York (1980.”

(Yours truly, texokie, went to Hemisfair, and spent some time in that very pavilion. )

Paul Rand was the art director for IBM.
“…It was Noyes who persuaded art director Paul Rand to truncate the company’s unwieldy name and to favor the color blue on IBM designs.”

“He said, ‘Wait a minute, this is a company that puts astronauts in orbit, and here it looks as though it was a part of the Nineteenth Century?’” Noyes said. “When that building goes up, ... it’s got to look like the cutting edge of what it’s about. It’s got to be the best building to have the best principles of the current time, because IBM is of the current time….” ”

https://www.thehour.com/news/article/Remembering-Eliot-Noyes-8107328.php

Image of IBM Selectric:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9f/IBM_Selectric.jpg/560px-IBM_Selectric.jpg

He was responsible for assigning other well known architects and designers to work with him on other IBM projects, such as Mies van der Rohe, Eero Saarinen, Marco Zanuso and Marcel Breuer.

Noted for his design theory, Harvard Graduate School of design established a professorship, called the “Eliot Noyes Professor of Architectural Theory.”

So it appears that Derry Craig’s daddy was quite the famous mover and shaker in Architectural and Academic realms, with real accomplishments to his credit. It should be noted as well, that he was rubbing shoulders with the High Tech mavens of the time.

END PART 4

Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q

DERRY CRAIG’S SIBLINGS
BROTHER: FREDERICK NOYES

PART 5 of 7

https://www.iconichouses.org/news/meet-the-friends-frederick-noyes

Frederick Noyes followed his father’s footsteps and is also a well known architect. He first studied biology at Harvard, then in graduate school, he studied architecture. He has taught both subjects at the college level.

He “has been most closely associated with Boston Architectural College, for which he has developed curricula and programs and chaired the board. His Boston architectural practice mainly builds hospitals and houses.”

In an interview for iconichouses.org, he was asked what was next for him. He gave the following reply:

“There are exciting developments in neurobiology and epigenetics. I want to better understand those…”

Me too.

Wikipedia defines “epigenetics” as:

“Epigenetics is the study of heritable changes in gene function that do not involve changes in the DNA sequence. The Greek prefix ‘ in epigenetics implies features that are “on top of” or “in addition to” the traditional genetic basis for inheritance….”

“…One example of an epigenetic change in eukaryotic biology is the process of cellular differentiation. During morphogenesis, totipotent stem cells become the various pluripotent cell lines of the embryo, which in turn become fully differentiated cells. In other words, as a single fertilized egg cell – the zygote – continues to divide, the resulting daughter cells change into all the different cell types in an organism, including neurons, muscle cells, epithelium, endothelium of blood vessels, etc., by activating some genes while inhibiting the expression of others….”

To me this says he’s interested in the exploration of the NON-DNA transmission of genetic expression. In the developing embryo, they are studying how certain cells are caused to begin their differentiations. I’m certain that my understanding is woefully incomplete.

I’m wondering if he is getting into this research (genetics/DNA/epigenetics) which is seeming to preoccupy so many of the Cabal, like the 23 and Me people. Is it his natural direction of curiosity, or has his curiosity been helped along and encouraged a bit somehow or another? I don’t know, but I have perhaps, not a red flag here, but perhaps a day-glo pink one, especially in light of other relatives we learn of later.

END PART 5

Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q

DERRY CRAIG’S SIBLINGS
SISTER : MARY DUNCAN (MERIDEE) BRUST and her husband and son

PART 6 of 7

https://www.nyfluteclub.org/uploads/newsletters/2005-2006/06MAY_final.pdf

https://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/20/fashion/weddings/20lin.html

http://nursing.columbia.edu/giving/deans-leadership-society

http://www.doctorwiki.org/dr-john-c-brust-md-neurology/

Derry Noyes Craig’s sister lives a very quiet life, as far as Wikipedia is concerned. None of the Wiki stories I initially read made direct mention of her, only that Eliot and Molly Noyes had “four children.” Eli, Frederick and Derry were named, but not Mary - until I found their mother’s obituary.

Mary seems to be an impressive, lovely woman. She got her nursing degree from Columbia in 1981. She has served as the director of Occupational Health Services at Rockefeller University in Manhattan.

She is an enthusiastic flutists, who plays often in a woodwind quintet.

I found several web sites which list her as a moderate donor to some educational and artistic fund raisers. Not flashy, or “LOOK AT ME!” at all.

Quiet, purposeful life. Based on what I have learned about her, I admire her.

She is married to a doctor, quite a famous one, Dr. John C. M. Brust of New York. He is a professor of clinical neurology at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and the director of neurology at Harlem Hospital Center. He also has been involved with the New York and Presbyterian Hospital in New York.

He as been in practice since 1962. He has not ever been involved in any malpractice actions of any kind according to two different sites I looked at.

One scientific research paper in which he participated, was an examination of the effects and safety of medical marijuana in selected neurologic disorders. In certain circumstances, the studies’ researchers stated they found the substance to be helpful.

Meridee’s and Dr John’s son, Dr. James Charles Morrison Brust, was married to Dr Sophia Dolly Lin in the Noyes house, built by his grandfather Eliot.

“Dr. Brust, 33, is an infectious diseases specialist at Montefiore Medical Center and an assistant professor of medicine at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, both in the Bronx. He conducts research on H.I.V. and drug-resistant tuberculosis in South Africa. He graduated magna cum laude from Columbia, from which he also received his medical degree.”

In another article, I read that he is now living in Africa,(at the time of the article) and (presumably) researching HIV there.

I also can’t help but wonder if he and his dad and Uncle Frederick had some conversations about “epigenetics” and other such considerations of the microscopic and submicroscopic levels. We’re still holding up the day glo pink flag.

So even quiet Meridee, Derry’s sister, Greg’s siste in-law, brings enhancements to the Greg Craig career track. Two noted doctors in Greg’s brother-in-law and nephew, and a prominent accomplished nurse sister-in-law in a major NY hospital, are in Greg’s circle of connections.

END PART 6

Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q

DERRY NOYSE CRAIG’S SIBLINGS
BROTHER: ELI NOYSE

PART 7 of 7

JUST FOR GRINS AND GIGGLES, IS THERE A LAUREL CANYON CONNECTION ANYWHERE?

Let’s see if there might be.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eli_Noyes

ELIOT (ELI) FETTE NOYSE was born in Amherst MA in 1942. He followed the family attachment to Harvard and graduated from there in 1964. He decided to get into animation for films.

One of the film techniques he is best known for is the Clay and Sand stop motion animation. His film short with that technique, “Clay or Origin of the Species” was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film.

He created the Sand Alphabet for Sesame Street and Nickelodeon. He cofounded Alligator Planet LLC with Ralph Guggenheim and Alan Buder.

https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/sfgate/obituary.aspx?pid=155361976

Alan Buder, on of Eli’s partners is deceased. He was a committed environmentalist. He had gone to Colgate, the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London, and Yale. He started numerous businesses, primarily in animation.

Alan co-founded Climate Cartoons (not with Noyes, that I could find - but the Alligator Planet website appears to be carrying them in their listings) to educate the next generation about the implications of climate change. He was also a founding member of E2, Environmental Entrepreneurs.

One of the cartoon films of Alan’s found cited at imdb.com is “Lucy: Daughter of the Devil.”
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2250946/

I spent quite a bit of time digging to try to connect Ralph Guggenheim, Eli’s other Alligator Planet LLC partner with “THE” Guggenheims. I was able to find a family tree of “THE” Guggenheims, but if Ralph is one of “THEIR” family members, he does not seem to be publicly or liberally acknowledged.

He has an impressive film background and was apparently, according to some, Pixar before there was a Pixar.

Ralph was a NY native, went to Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburg. He studied photography and computer science. He was working at NY Institute of Technology Computer Graphics Lab. Lucasfilm hired him and moved him to California in 1981.

“…After his research lab at Lucasfilm was sold to Steve Jobs and renamed Pixar, Guggenheim continued to work in the world of graphics and animation. Guggenheim, a respected founder of Pixar, eventually became Vice President of Feature Animation and was a lead producer for Toy Story. Guggenheim left the company in 1997 after Disney forced Pixar to remove him as producer from Toy Story 2....”

The article does not explain why Disney did not want Ralph working on Toy Story 2.

He then co-founded the Alligator Planet LLC with Alan and Eli.

Eli Noye’s wiki page has a number of titles listed of his work. However, the one that caught my eye (as I suspect it will yours too) was his work with Disney on…….

(Drum Roll please….)

The 1991 Disney series, “ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND.”

I looked that up with the friendly little link wiki thoughtfully provided, and found this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adventures_in_Wonderland

“Adventures in Wonderland is a live-action/puppet musical television series based on Alice in Wonderland and Alice Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll. In the series, Alice (played by Elisabeth Harnois), was portrayed as a girl who can come and go from Wonderland simply by walking through her mirror (a reference to Alice Through the Looking Glass).

The series originally ran from March 23, 1992 to 1995 (with reruns continuing until at least 1997) on The Disney Channel and on stations across the country. Like many Disney Channel original shows, Adventures in Wonderland was originally taped at Disney-MGM Studios at the Walt Disney World Resort in Lake Buena Vista, Florida, with two sound stages used exclusively for the show, but only for its first 40 episodes. Afterward, shooting was moved to Los Angeles, CA.”

“Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment released three VHS tapes of certain episodes.”

“The puppets for some of the characters were created by Chiodo Bros. Inc.”

There were a number of credits listed for the various actors associated with the film. Terry Garr was “The Duchess” - (and was really the only name I recognized.)

The article included some notes about the characters in the series, and how they interact with each other. They are the characters we are familiar with from the Lewis Carroll story. Alice, the Red Queen, the White Rabbit, etc. I found them to be enlightening, in view of our Q studies.

In 2005, Alligator Planet produced “Here Comes Peter Cottontail” - another endearing story featuring a rabbit.

(As far as I’m concerned, Brother Ei has here an honestly earned Red flag.)

So, while I have been unable to place Eli Noyse directly with Laurel Canyon, both he and his living partner, Ralph, have both worked with Disney in Hollywood.

We have the understanding from previous digs that Disney was involved up to his cute little mustache in the secret CIA film making facility in Laurel Canyon. Eli and Ralph at different times both worked for Disney’s company. So, while there does not seem to be a direct Laurel Canyon tie, one could possibly make a case for an implied one, or indirect one.

STRANGENESS:
I found near the end of my searches, a link to some US Post Office stamp art work done by Derry, which was dedicated to the theme, “Animal Rescue: Adopt a Shelter Pet Stamp.”

The Post Office was promoting it, giving instructions for how to obtain first day covers. They also produced an article about the stamps:

https://about.usps.com/news/state-releases/ny/2010/ny_2010_0504.htm

In the article the Post Office posted in May of 2010, it is noted that the stamps were originally unveiled on the ELLEN DEGENERES SHOW on March 17, 2010.

This “Gee Whiz” factoid caught my eye in the instructions for how to obtain a first day issue:

“…. Customers have 60 days to obtain the first day of issue postmark by mail. They may purchase new stamps at their local Post Office™, at The Postal Store® at www.usps.com/shop or by calling 800-STAMP-24. They should affix the stamps to envelopes of their choice, address the envelopes to themselves or others and place them in a larger envelope addressed to: Animal Rescue: Adopt A Shelter Pet Stamps C/O POSTMASTER 7035 LAUREL CANYON BLVD. HOLLYWOOD, CA 91605-9998…”

So I leave it in your capable hands to decide if Derry and the Noyes family have a genuine “Laurel Canyon” dot-connect.

Derry Noyes Craig DOES have a very genuinely interesting family full of bright talented people. My conclusion remains, as I have previously indicated that Derry brought a lot to Gregg Craig when he married her talented self, and into her exceptionally creative family.

END PART 7

LOOSE END ADDENDUM:

In my researches, I ran across a JOHN HUMPHREY NOYSE. He was the originator of the ONEIDA COMMUNITY, 1848-1881, a perfectionistic, religious, communistic, “Free Love”, eugenic settlement which supported itself with making beautiful silverware, among other things.

It makes for fascinating reading, and I tried to find an obvious connection to the Derry/Eliot Noyes family, but better researchers than I will have to try for that, if it matters. Nevertheless -

*texokie gets out her whittlin’ knife and begins smoothing out a lovely gnarly pine tree root*-

IF and I say “IF” it is the same family, how very interesting.

I could find nothing about the origins of Eliot F. Noyes’s father Atherton, except that he was born in 1862, “had deep Boston roots,” and taught English literature at Harvard. The reason for going to Colorado had been because Atherton had wanted to be a physician, but contracted tuberculosis and went on a different career path. The time spent in Colorado when Eliot Fette was little, was for Atherton’s health. Atherton’s time of birth could plausibly put his antecedents with the Oneidas, but I have NO PROOF of that.

*texokie has also been helping herself to a slice of watermelon chock full of lovely black seeds, and spits a mouthful of them across the patio into the lawn, hoping that greeneyes didn’t see her do that. :-D *

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oneida_Community

REALLY the END OF PART 7
Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q