Tag: #FamousFriday

Hamden celebrity of the week

Jonathan Quick


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Jonathan Quick, National Hockey League Goalie

Quick is currently the goalie for the Los Angeles Kings and won the Stanley Cup in 2012 and 2014. At age 33, he holds the record for the most appearances and starts for Los Angeles and has the winningest record in a single Kings season with 40 wins and 23 losses. Quick grew up in Hamden and attended Hamden High School before transferring to Avon Old Farms, a preparatory school known for its hockey program. Ray and Mike’s Deli, a local favorite, named one of their sandwiches the ‘Quickwich’ in honor of Quick’s first Stanley Cup win.

Hamden celebrity of the week

Stephen Malawista


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Stephen Malawista, Co-Discoverer of Lyme Disease

Malawista was a medical researcher and Professor of Medicine at Yale University. Alongside his Yale colleague Dr. Allen Steere, the pair defined the illness brought to their attention by the Connecticut Department of Public Health as “lyme arthritis” in 1977. They determined that the illness was the result of a tick bite, and after more research outlining the variety of symptoms surrounding the illness, the name was changed to “Lyme Disease.”  At the age of 79, Malawista died due to complications of melanoma in his Hamden home in September 2013.