NECROLOGY FOR UH RETIREES
Death is the veil which those who live call life:
They sleep and it is lifted.
Percy Bysshe Shelley, in Prometheus Unbound
For anything that men can tell, death may be the greatest good that can happen
to them:
but they fear it as if they knew quite well
that it was the greatest of evils.
And what is this but that shameful ignorance of thinking that we know what
we do not know?
Socrates, quoted from Plato's Apology.
NOTE:
* = link to information and obituaries.
The underlined names hyperlink to published reports.
** = link to persons commemorated on Manoa Campus, even if still living. The
highlighted names hyperlink to HALL OF NAMES entries.
This is a very incomplete list, starting in 2004. Readers are invited to suggest corrections and additions. Admittedly the obituaries are very uneven -- I've just used what I could find, whether an extended tribute or a snipet from the press. Readers who can provide more complete obituaries for anyone are encouraged to send them to me. No doubt errors abound -- so corrections are encouraged. Compiled by Fred W. Riggs -- please write him at "fredr@hawaii.edu"
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*Carl Warren Adams |
*Barbara Louise Frissell *Tom Fujimura *William R Furtick **William Henry George *Will Gersch *Helen O. Gilbert-Bushnell **John Washington Gilmore *Madeleine Goodman *Robert C. Goodridge *Wytze Gorter *John Hardman *D. Elmo Hardy *Leroy Stanley Harms *Sinikka Hayasaka **Charles Reed Hemenway **Louis Albert Henke *Elizabeth A. Hiatt *Virginia Hollingshead **Wilfred Jay Holmes *Pill Whoon Hong *Ruth Willard Iams *Hiroko Ikeda *Richard "Hunny" Inskeep **John Alexander Johnson *Lorraine Mililani Kaina *Henry Kariel *Noel Kefford **Arthur Ripont Keller *Robert Herman Kessner *Edgar "Ned" F Kiefer *Nora Kirkpatrick **Otto Klum *Oscar Kurren **Ralph Simpson Kuykendall *Barry J LaBonte *Kenneth Keong Lau *William Lebra *Orland Leforge *Edna Lee Pegram Leip *Werner Levi *Richard Warren Lieban *Mary Rankin Livingston *Roger Alan Long *Patricia Butler Lopes *Leonard Mason *Geraldine Maurer *Walter Maurer |
**Charles James McCarthy *James Miller McCutcheon *Allen McGregor *Norman Meller *Edwin Leroy Miller *Wallace C Mitchell **Charles A. Moore **Les Murakami *Winfield E Nagley *Yukio Nakagawa *Shigeru "Charlie" Nakata *Shigeo Okubo *Moris Soo Young Pang *Vince Peterson **Stanley D. Porteus **William Shaw Richardson *James C. Sadler *Robert Sakai **Shunzo Sakamaki *Stephen Henry Saul **Allan Saunders **Bruce Stanley Sheriff **George Donald Sherman *Martin Sherman **Jay H. Shidler *Minoru Shinoda *Glendon Shubert **Gregg Manners Sinclair **Harold St. John *Robert B. Stauffer *Jes Stollberg *Sachiko Takeshita *John A. Thompson *Helen A Topham *Anthony Long Duc Truong **Ada Susan Varney *Raymoond Vaught *Dorothy Vella *Walter Vella *George P L Walker *Herbert Weaver *Theodore Winnick *John Wisnosky **Benjamin Othello Wist *Ella Lury Wiswell *Warren Yuen Jong Yee *David Yount |
Please help complete these entries -- I have names
but no obituaries. If you can provide the data, please sent it to <fredr@hawaii.edu>.
Leon Edel, English (1997); Allen McGregor, English (1992); Charles Bouslog,
English (200?); Tom Fujimura, English (?); Walter Vella, History; Dorothy
Vella, English; Reuel Denney, Am. Studies; Richard Foster, English Chair;
and from Psychology: Thomas Ciborowski, John Digman, Herbert Weaver, and
Hal Bitner
CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION. As UH enters its 2nd century, we pause to celebrate the past and commemorate those who contributed so much while they lived. The necrology that follows provides a record, though only a partial record, of our achievements. We join with Interim Chancellor Denise Eby Konan in warm memories and fervent hopes. As she wrote: More than half of the university's hundred years unfolded first on the Manoa campus. We invite the people of Hawai‘i to share our pride in all we have done, to join in our celebration of all that we are, and to help us shape the institution that we can be in our second century. For an historical perspective, view the UH Moving History site. Some of the most creative shapers of UH's history have left their mark on campus buildings that bear their names -- hyperlinks to their bios are included in the list that follows.
CARL WARREN ADAMS, 87, of Honolulu, died April 21, 2005. Born in Chrisney, Ind. A retired University of Hawai'i meteorology professor; also a retired U.S. Navy lieutenant commander. Survived by wife, Hitoye; son, Derwin Kakugawa; daughters, Iris Alley and Lori Kakugawa; brother, Robert; four grandchildren.
RICHARD ALM, trained thousands of school teachers as a professor at the University of Hawai'i-Manoa and launched a clinic that offered far-reaching help to struggling young readers in the state school system, died June 5, 2005 in Maunalani Nursing Center. He was 83. An emeritus professor in the UH College of Education and a former department chairman, taught at UH-Manoa from 1951 to 1985. He is the father of Hawai'i Circuit Judge Steve Alm and Hawaiian Electric Co. senior vice president of public affairs Robbie Alm. The senior Alm was the editor of the prestigious national academic periodical The English Journal for 10 years as well as the author and editor of numerous books.
ARTHUR LYNN ANDREWS (1871-1945) -- commemorated by Andrews Outdoor Theater.
WALTER JAMES APT, 1922-2007, was born in Belfield, ND. As a child, he would swim in the water reservoir as it was the only body of water in that arid part of the country. He served in the Army Air Force as an armorer on the A-20 type light bombers making repairs to gunsights and mechanisms pertaining to armament. He loaded bombs and ammunition in preparation to bombing, and served 17 months in the European Area.. Upon completing his military service, he began studies at Washington State University (called State College of Washington at the time) and graduated with a Bachelor of Science in 1950. His PhD dissertation research, entitled “Studies on the Fusarium Disease of Bulbous Ornamental Crops” under the mentoring of Dr. J. Walter Hendrix, was awarded in 1958.
In 1955, Dr. Apt joined the USDA and was stationed at the Western Washington Research and Extension Center (WWREC) to work on Pratylenchus penetrans, a root lesion nematode, infecting narcissus bulbs. Dr. Apt found that fumigants increased the yield and quality of King Alfred daffodils, however if the soil was treated too severely, especially with methyl bromide, losses from Fusarium basal rot increased. While at the WWREC, Dr. Apt also conducted research on the seed gall nematode of Agrostis spp. In a collaborative effort, Dr. Apt attempted to break the life cycle of Anguina agrostis by spraying the grass with growth regulators to prevent flowering. The best treatments suppressed flowering, but because a few flower stalks still developed control was incomplete. Dr. Apt left Washington and was restationed in a USDA position at Utah State University in Logan, Utah.
Dr. Apt served as a consulting nematologist to the Hawaii Sugar Planters Association in 1958-59 resulting in a report entitled “Investigations of Nematodes as a Factor in Yield Decline of Sugar Cane Vanities.” He must have enjoyed the sunshine, warm weather and nematological challenges because in 1963, Dr. Apt left his USDA position in Logan and accepted an appointment in Honolulu with the Pineapple Research Institute (PRI) for twice the pay. At PRI, Dr. Apt continued research on nematode control and designed the first nematode management program based upon the systemic properties of fenamiphos. PRI closed in 1973 and Dr. Apt was appointed a Professor in the Department of Plant Pathology in the College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources at the University of Hawaii at Manoa where he continued pioneering research on volatile and nonvolatile nematicides in pineapple cultivation. In his last years of active research, Dr. Apt was a leader in developing technology for the safe application of nematicides through drip irrigation systems. His research was not solely focused on nematode control but extended to ecological relationships, especially dessication tolerance of root-knot and reniform nematodes.
Dr. Apt had an active academic career. While a university faculty member, Dr. Apt advised several students in their Master and PhD programs among these students was Dr. Diógenes Cordero-Clark a former Dean of Agricultural Sciences at the University of Panama. Dr. Apt also served as a committee member for numerous other students in plant pathology, agronomy and horticulture. Dr. Apt was a member of the American Phytopathological Society. Dr. Apt began his subscription to the Nematology Newsletter in 1959 and was among the first members of the fledgling Society of Nematologists. In 1987, the Society of Nematologists recognized Dr. Apt’s contributions with the Ciba-Geigy Award.
Dr. Apt retired from the University of Hawaii and active research in 1989. He relocated with his wife Solveig to Bellingham, WA. After returning to Washington, he traveled up and down the west coast from Alaska to San Diego, to Yellowstone National Park and his birthplace of Belfield ND. When he returned to Belfield, he was shocked to see how dinky his swimming reservoir was! Dr. Apt loved being with his grandchildren and when they grew up was grateful to have great grandchildren so he could once again read stories to them, play trains, and build creations with leggos with them. When his grandchildren and great grandchildren were small, he had a tradition of carrying gummy bears in his shirt pocket and giving the children hugs as they picked the the candy out of his pocket. Dr. Apt enjoyed gardening in Hawaii and in Washington. He missed the warmth of Hawaii but compensated by thoroughly enjoying the fireplace during the winter months in Washington.
Dr. Apt was recognized through out commercial pineapple, nematology, and phytopathology as a leader in chemical control of nematodes. Prepared by B. Sipes and D. Meyer.
MINORU ARAGAKI, 80, of Kane'ohe, died April 7, 2007. Professor emeritus of plant pathology, in the Department of Plant and Environmental Protections Sciences, College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources, University of Hawai‘i at Manoa. He retired in October 1993 after more than 46 years of service to the University of Hawai‘i. He continued to work almost daily in his laboratory for many years following his initial cancer diagnosis and during his illness. His love and dedication to his work was legendary. He will be remembered as a mentor of countless numbers of students including high school students who spent their summers shadowing him in the Junior Science Apprenticeship and the Young Scholars National Science Foundation programs, undergraduate students, graduate students, young professors starting their careers in Plant Pathology, and established scientists on sabbatical leaves from the United States and abroad.
Minoru began his college career in 1943 as a pre-med student at the University of Hawai‘i during the middle of World War II. After completing 2 years of study at the University of Hawai‘i he joined the U.S. Army on June 15, 1945. By the time he completed his basic training and his 26 weeks of intensive Japanese Language training at the Military Intelligence Service Language Institute at Fort Snelling, Minnesota, the war had ended. Nevertheless, his service was still needed and he was deployed to Japan as an interpreter. This language training and experience proved valuable later in his professional career as he read and translated Japanese scientific publications into English. However, after being stationed in Japan for one and a half months he was recalled to Hawaii. He terminated his military obligation on December 17. 1946 and immediately applied for and was hired as a Laboratory Assistant at the University of Hawaii with Dr. J.Walter Hendrix. He completed his Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry in 1950 while working full time and launched his professional career.
After receiving his B.S. degree, Minoru was immediately promoted to Assistant Researcher. In 1952, he departed Honolulu for the University of Minnesota, where he spent a year. He received his Master of Science degree in 1954 in Botany, specializing in Plant Pathology. With his M.S. degree in hand, he was promoted to the rank of Junior Plant Pathologist at the University of Hawai`i. His career went into full stride from this point and he received tenure in 1957. He was promoted to Assistant Plant Pathologist in 1961 and received his PhD in 1963 under the direction of Dr. Maxwell S. Doty in the Department of Botany at the University of Hawai`i.
One of Minoru’s major areas of interest and expertise was in mycology. He was considered an authority in several groups of fungi such as Alternaria, Bipolaris, Botrytis, Colletotrichum, and Rhizoctonia. He also had expertise in tropical Phytophthora, and Pythium species. He co-authored the identification and naming of several fungi in the genera Alternaria, Bipolaris, and Phytopthora. He was honored by Emory G. Simmons who named the fungus Alternaria aragakii after him.
Minoru published over 88 refereed articles in national and international journals, 38 abstracts, a book chapter, and 50 extension articles during his career. What was really impressive was that he co-authored these articles with more than 76 different individuals. Although he specialized in fungal diseases, he also conducted research on bacterial, viral, and diseases caused by nematodes on numerous endemic and economically important plants grown in Hawaii.
Most noteworthy are his contributions to the anthurium, dendrobium, and papaya breeding programs at the University of Hawai`i. As a result of his innovative contributions, Hawai‘i remains a leader in research and development of anthuriums and papaya. Many of the procedures he developed for screening disease resistance in these crops are still in use by researchers today.
Minoru made significant contributions not only in the areas of mycology and
plant pathology but his research findings and contributions directly improved
agriculture in Hawaii. More importantly, he impacted the lives of the many
students he mentored and peers that learned, worked or collaborated with him
by passing on his knowledge, wisdom, and enthusiasm. He was a man of high integrity
and held impressive standards for the disciplines of plant pathology and mycology.
Minoru is survived by his wife Marjorie, son, Keith; daughters, Robin Scanlon
and Cathy Ahlo; brothers Wilfred, Jerry and Ronald; sisters, Evelyn and Doris;
three grandchildren. Prepared by W. Nishijima and J.Uchida.
See also Honolulu Advertiser, 4/20/2007
CAROL POST WALKER ARNOLD, of Lanikai, died Aug. 18, 2006. Born in New Haven, Conn. Retired from University of Hawai'i; former East-West Center librarian; UH School of Public Health library administrator; private piano teacher; singer with Hawaii Vocal Arts Ensemble; and Chaminade University piano instructor. Survived by sons, Robert and Bradford; five grandchildren. Hon. Adv. Sept. 6, 2006.
DON E. AVERY, 92, died Dec. 2, 2004 at Castle Medical Center. Kaneohe resident since 1954, born in Everson, Washington on May 20, 1912. Retired Professor of Engineering at the University of Hawaii where he also served as Chairman of General Engineering. An award-winning inventor who designed and built a 45-foot sailing vessel, an amphibious airplane, and windmill-controlled pumping systems that generated interest world-wide. An avid hiker and long-time member of the Trail and Mount Club. Survived by his spouse, Jean; daughters, Nancy M. Avery-Curd (Sam M. Curd) of Bellingham, WA, and Bonnie E. Avery (John Weber) of Corvallis, Oregon; stepdaughter, Nalani Merrill (Kent Merrill) of Kona; stepson Michael E. Whaley (Mary Ann Whaley) of Kaneohe; and grandchildren, David A. Avery-Curd and Kainani Merrill. Honolulu Advertiser, Sunday, December 19, 2004.
PAUL S. BACHMAN (1901-1957) -- memorialized by Bachman Hall
GLADYS ELIZABETH BAKER, professor emeritus at the University of Hawai'i, died July 27, 2007. Born in Iowa City, Iowa. A teacher at Hunter College, Vassar College and U.H. Manoa; a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; and charter member of the Medical Mycological Society. Honolulu Advertiser, 8/24/07
HARRY VERNON BALL, 79, of Kailua, died May 16, 2006. Born in St. Louis. Prof. Emer. of Sociology.
LEONORA NEUFFER BILGER (1893-1975) -- memorialized by Bilger Hall
EDWARD BEAUCHAMP. Prof. emer., died Aug. 8, 2006 at the age of 72, He joined the College of Education in 1969 in both Educational Foundations and Curriculum Research Development Group, for 32 years. Specialized in comparative and international education and the history of education. He was Fulbright prof. at Keio Univ, Tokyo and Eotvos Lorand Univ., Budapest, Hungary.
LEON
HERNANDEZ BELEN
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ALBERT BENEDICT , died March 25, 2005. Born in California. A professor emeritus of microbiology at the University of Hawai'i and formerly chairman of the microbiology department. He taught and did research in the field of immunology. He founded a UH research facility that produces antibodies still in commercial use. Survived by daughters, Donna Wilson and Melinda Yamaga; four grandchildren; seven great-grandchildren. He had retired as a professor when his childhood interest in photography was rekindled. That artistic passion of his recent years was captured in "Ka Iwi -- Survival of a Coast," a glossy book of his photographic art with essays by friends about the last undeveloped stretch of shoreline on Oahu, published in 2000.
ELEANOR BILSBORROW, a University of Hawaii professor emeritus, died July 30, 2007, in Hospice Hawaii Palolo Home at the age of 92. Besides teaching, Eleanor was an artist, composer and singer. She was someone special for me as she steered me into journalism. She was my freshman English teacher at UH in 1950. I wrote a theme in her class critiquing coaches I had before entering college. She liked it and sent me to Ka Leo, the student newspaper. I was wary about that because I wasn't much of a typist. In fact, that theme I wrote was typed by Faye Brash (now Faye Parker), the little 13-year-old sister of one of my close friends, Calvin Brash. Up to that time the only newspaper experience I had was selling the Star-Bulletin during World War II when I was 11. But before long, I was Ka Leo's sports editor and a columnist. After working as a journalist in Germany for Stars and Stripes for almost 10 years, I visited Eleanor, who had a high position in the UH English department, and thanked her for getting me started in this business. Years later when Eleanor and her companion of 67 years, Pat O'Brien, 95, also a UH professor emeritus, lived at One Kalakaua, I socialized with them, thanks to Realtor Alice Clay. Alice looked after the pair and reconnected me with them. A celebration of Eleanor's life will be held at 10 a.m. Friday at the Outrigger Canoe Club ... Incidentally, Faye Parker, that little girl who typed my theme, married actor Doug McClure. They were friends with many young actors and actresses in the late 1950s and '60s, such as Clint Eastwood, Robert Wagner and Jill St. John. She also became friends with Nancy Sinatra, her dad, Frank, and other showbiz stars ... Ben Wood, Star Bulletin, Aug. 8, 2007
ROBERT BOBILIN, long-time church activist, scholar and champion of nonviolence, died Dec. 22, 2004 at his Honolulu home. He was 80. Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., he was a founding director of the Institute for Peace at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa and chairman of the Department of Religion for nine years. During this time he helped institute a graduate program and a series of conferences and publications on the Buddhist-Christian dialogue. He also served as an adviser to the Hawai'i Association of International Buddhists and was a visiting professor at Kansai Gakuen in Nishinomiya, Japan, and in Bangkok, Thailand.
CHARLES BOUSLOG, UH English Dept.
GLADYS KAMAKAKUOKALANI BRANDT (1906-2003) UH Board of Regents, memorialized by the Kamakakuokalani Center for Hawaiian Studies
OZZIE BUSHNELL. died August 2002. A microbiologist and medical historian, Bushnell began writing novels while still teaching at the University of Hawaii's School of Medicine. His early works, including "Ka'a'awa" and "Moloka'i," paved the way for several generations of Island writers to tell their own stories, using their own voices. He retired from UH, after 24 years, in 1970, saving his most deeply felt work for last. His 1993's "Gifts of Civilization: Germs and Genocide in Hawaii" is a masterful combination of his skills and interests: microbiology, Hawaiian history and literary craftsmanship. The book, which Bushnell worked on for more than 50 years, is the definitive study of how Native Hawaiians, living in isolation from the rest of the world for centuries, were susceptible to and nearly wiped out when the first visitors arrived in the Islands carrying a host of unknown germs and diseases, including tuberculosis, smallpox, Hansen's and venereal diseases.
HAMPTON L. CARSON , whose work in evolutionary genetics with native Hawai'i drosophila flies brought him international recognition, died Dec. 19, 2004, at the age of 90. He was a professor emeritus of genetics and molecular biology at the University of Hawai'i, retired in 1985, the same year he was honored with the prestigious Joseph Leidy Medal from the National Academy of Science, to which he was elected in 1979. The award honored his research into Hawai'i drosophila flies and their adaptation to island ecosystems. Honolulu Advertiser, Saturday, January 8, 2005
DAVID W. CHAPPELL, Professor Emeritus of Religion, died Jan. 2005.
HENRI JEAN CHARLOT (1898-1979) was born in Paris, descended from those he would later refer to as "sundry exotic ancestors" (Charlot 1954:99). His father, Henri, was a French businessman, free-thinker and Bolshevik sympathizer born and reared in Russia. Anna, his mother, an artist and a devout Catholic, was the daughter of Louis Goupil, a native of Mexico City. He was eulogized by the Hawai'i State Legislature as a distinguished artist, teacher, art historian, author, and philospher in House Concurrent Resolution 153 which "enshrines the memory of Jean Charlot in the hearts and minds of the people of Hawai'i."
An invitation to create a fresco at the University of Hawai'i, Manoa, brought Charlot to Honolulu in 1949 where he painted Relation of Man and Nature in Old Hawai'i (10' x 29') on the first floor of the administration building, Bachman Hall. He accepted a position as professor of art at the University, and Hawai'i became the Charlot family's permanent home. Charlot found himself greatly attracted to the culture of the native Hawaiian, just as he had been interested in the folk aspects of the residents of rural France and the indigenous peoples of Mexico. He studied Hawaiian history, customs, and religion and learned the Hawaiian language, writing plays in Hawaiian: Na Lono Elua (Two Lonos), 1965, a three-act bilingual play about Captain Cook, also published as a one-act play in English, and Laukiamanuikahiki, (Snare That Lures a Farflung Bird), a short bilingual play in Hawaiian and English in 1964. (The latter was published with Two Lonos by the University of Hawai'i Press in 1976 with the title Two Hawaiian Plays.) Three Plays of Ancient Hawai'i, in English are Na'auao (The Light Within), U'i A U'i (Beauty Meets Beauty), and Moa A Mo'i (Chicken into King), also with illustrations by Charlot (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 1963).
From 1949 to 1979 Charlot created almost six hundred easel paintings, several hundred prints, and thirty-six works of art in public places in fresco, ceramic tile and sculpture. He taught summer sessions at several schools, among them San Diego State College (1950), Arizona State University (1951) and the University of Notre Dame (1955 and 1956). In 1950 he was made faculty advisor to the Newman Club, the Catholic student organization of the University of Hawai'i. <>Selected exhibitions include the Charlot retrospective, "Fifty Years, 1916-66," at the Honolulu Academy of Arts (1966); a retrospective in his honor, "Obras Pictoricas de Jean Charlot," at the Museo del Arte Moderno in Mexico City (1968), which was part of the cultural program of the XIX Olympiad; "Paintings, Drawings and Lithographs by Jean Charlot," at the Georgia Museum of Arts, University of Georgia (1976); and the "Jean Charlot Retrospective," (1976), sponsored by the Hawai'i State Foundation on Culture and the Arts to honor the artist on his 78th birthday and to mark the publication of the catalogue raisonn?, Jean Charlot's Prints, by Peter Morse (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 1976).
The Honolulu Advertiser and the Honolulu Star-Bulletin published approximately 160 articles of art criticism written by Charlot from 1952-71. Other publications by Charlot include Choris and Kamaehameha (Honolulu: Bishop Museum Press, 1958); Mexican Art and the Academy of San Carlos, 13785-1915 (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1962); Jos? Clemente Orozco, El Artista en Nueva York: Caras a Jean Charlot y Textos Ineditos (Mexico City: Siglo Veintiuno, 1971, and the English version, Austin: University of Texas Press, 1974); and an anthology of Charlot's journal publications, An Artist on Art: Collected Essays of Jean Charlot (2 vols., Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 1972). He created weekly cartoons for the Catholic paper The Sun-Herald in 1950-51 and, from 1957-79, weekly syndicated Catholic cartoons. An anthology of Charlot's newspaper cartoons for the Catholic press, Cartoons Catholic: Mirth and Meditation from the Brush and Brain of Jean Charlot, appeared in 1978.
Via Crucis, a lithographic series intended for display in smaller churches, was printed by Lynton Kistler in 1956. Fifteen color lithographs were created by Charlot to illustrate Thornton Wilder's The Bridge of San Luis Rey (New York: Limited Editions Club, 1962). Picture Book II, published by Kistler in 1972, is a print portfolio with thirty-two lithographs (6" x 8") in nine colors of Mexican, Hawaiian, Fijian and religious motifs. Also printed in 1972 was a series of etchings made of images Charlot had created in sculpture for the Moanalua Intermediate School in Honolulu, and the following year he completed a hotel commission of eight serigraphs with Fijian themes. In 1978, Kistler printed the five-color lithographs, Kei Viti: Melanesian Images and a new edition of Chemin de Croix from the original 1920 woodblocks.
Charlot's talents were also realized in the medium of sculpture. Among the works in public collections is a statue of Father Damien (45") cast in 1967 in bronze and installed at St. Anthony's Church, Wailuku, Maui, in 1980. With Evelyn Giddings, he created an 8' copper plate champlev? enamel sculpture for Moanalua Intermediate School in Honolulu titled In Praise of Petroglyphs (1972-73). Charlot sculptures in ceramic are Madonna and Child (5') at St. Francis Hospital, Honolulu (1959); Sacred Heart (7'5"), St. William's Church, Hanalei, Kaua'i (1969); Ali'i Nui, or High Chief (9'), Ala Moana Hotel, Honolulu (1971) and Madonna and Child (15') for Maryknoll School, Honolulu (1978-79).
Charlot also employed ceramic for murals: fourteen ceramic tile panels, each 2' x 4', were used in Way of the Cross for St. Sylvester's Church, Kilauea, Kaua'i (1956) and another Way of the Cross, 3' x 2' in ceramic tile, for St. Catherine's Church in Kapa'a, Kaua'i in 1958. Ceramic tile panels were used both indoors and outdoors at St. Francis Hospital to illustrate various religious topics (1959). St. Gabriel, a 3' x 2' ceramic tile panel, was made in 1959 to be placed over the entrance of St. Gabriel's Church in Charlotte, North Carolina. Other ceramic tile murals are Night Hula (9' x 15') at the Tradewind Apartments, Honolulu, in 1961, and seven exterior panels (four 11' x 13' and three 8' x 13'), depicting workers on the job and various union activities on the School Street fa?ade of the United Public Workers Building, Honolulu (1970-75).
A mosaic mural, Piet? (6 1/4' x 10 3/4'), for the Parish Center of St. John the Evangelist Church, Morristown, New York, was unveiled in 1962. Way of the Cross, a Styrofoam reverse sculpture consisting of fourteen panels, each 20' x 16', was cast in situ with the cement wall of the Church of St. John Apostle and Evangelist, Mililani, O'ahu, in 1971. Episodes from the Life of Christ, thirty-two copper repouss? panels, each 18" x 19", were executed in collaboration with Evelyn Giddings for the doors of Thurston Chapel, Punahou School, in 1967-75.
Charlot employed yet another medium, acrylic on Masonite, for a series of nine panels, Mayan Warriors, for the 1970 Flora Pacifica Exhibition in Honolulu. A mural in acrylic on Masonite, Musicians of Old Hawai'i (two panels, 16' x 8'), was painted for the Harbor Square Apartments in Honolulu in 1971.
Residents of Hawai'i enjoy viewing many of Charlot's fresco murals in locations throughout the State. Early Contacts of Hawai'i with the Outer World (11' x 67') was painted in 1951-52 at the Waikiki branch of Bishop Bank. (This later became First National and then First Hawaiian Bank.) In 1966, when the building was destroyed, this mural was divided into smaller panels. Charlot executed Commencement (10' x 36'), on the second floor of Bachman Hall, University of Hawai'i (1953); Chief's Canoe (8' x 20'), Catamaran Cafe, Hilton Hawaiian Village Hotel, Honolulu (painted in 1956; since removed from the wall); Compassionate Christ (10' x 7'), St. Catherine's Church, Kapa'a, Kaua'i (1958); Inspiration, Study, Creation (15' x16'), Jefferson Hall, East-West Center, Honolulu (1967); Battle of the Malinches (4' x 8'), Maryknoll Elementary School, Honolulu (1967); Angels in Adoration (10' x 19'), Grace Episcopal Church, Ho'olehua, Moloka'i (1967). In 1974, Charlot painted the fresco mural The Relation of Man and Nature in Old Hawai'i (23' x 104') at Leeward Community College, O'ahu and, in 1978 another fresco for Maryknoll Elementary School, Christ and the Samaritan Woman at the Well (5' x 4').
Charlot retired from the University of Hawai'i as Senior Professor Emeritus in 1966. Two years later, he traveled to France for the first time since 1921 and, at Malz?ville and Paris, created a series of lithographs. In 1968 the Jean Charlot Foundation was established in Honolulu to collect source materials relating to the life, work, art, philosophy, and values of Jean Charlot and promote publication of Charlot material. The Foundation, which also had as its stated purpose the "development of interest in the arts, encouragement of artists, and study of art," has sponsored art exhibitions and other art events, and presented various scholarships and prizes for excellence in art to Hawai'i artists.
Among the honors bestowed on Charlot was the election by the Royal Society of Art, London, as a Benjamin Franklin Fellow in 1972. In 1976, the Hawai'i State Legislature presented Charlot with the Order of Distinction for Cultural Leadership. In June of that year, Charlot was among a distinguished group of persons recognized by the Living Treasure Committee, sponsored by the Living Treasure Committee, sponsored by Honpa Hongwanji Mission, for "contributions to Hawai'i's culture and the preservation of Hawaiiana." Charlot, known as "Palani" among his Hawaiian friends, was named a "Living Treasure" for his paintings and murals showing Hawai'i's culture.
In 1974, Charlot was diagnosed as having cancer of the prostate. Radiation treatments and chemotherapy would keep the disease under control for the next four years. Confined to a wheelchair during the last months of his life, Charlot nonetheless remained active as an artist and a scholar until his death on March 20, 1979. His last article on Posada ("Jos? Guadalupe Posada and His Successors," in the catalogue Posada's Mexico, edited by Ron Tyler for the Library of Congress and Amon Carter Museum of Western Art, 1979) was published posthumously; the catalogue and exhibition were dedicated to Charlot's memory.
CRAIG JOHNSON CHAUDRON, 60, of Honolulu, died Aug. 21, 2006. Born in St. Louis, Mo. A professor for second language studies at the University of Hawai'i. Survived by wife, Lucia; son, Nicolas Kea'oalohilani; daughters, Camila Kea Lucia and Cara La'i Ana; brother, Doug. Hon. Adv. August 25, 2006
ARTHUR CHIU A legendary figure in Hawai'i engineering circles and an international expert on the effects of wind on structures, died Jan. 30, 2006. He was 76."A legend connotes someone who leaves a lasting impression and I think it's an apt description of him to the engineering community here," said Maurice Kaya, chief technology officer of the state Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism. "His dedication to the (University of Hawai'i's) engineering school, the community and to his students was unparalleled." For 42 years, starting in 1953, Chiu taught structural engineering at UH-Manoa. As a professor emeritus, he remained active on campus as a mentor, researcher and volunteer with the local chapter of Chi Epsilon, the national civil engineering honor society, that he helped organize in 1957 and with the Hawai'i Chi Epsilon Alumni Association. A Malamalama tribute reads: Active until the very last, he suffered a stroke while attending a Structural Engineers Association of Hawaii function. Tuition was $85, lettuce grew in the fields across Dole Street and only one engineering student was female when Arthur Chiu arrived at the University of Hawaii at Manoa in 1953, intending to teach for just one year. Manoa changed but Chiu stayed, and his 42-year teaching career has had a monumental and generational impact on engineering in Hawaii.
EDWARD PETER CHRONICLE, (1966 - 2007) was a dedicated scholar who specialized in the areas of cognition and migraine studies. Born in Coventry, England, Ed was educated at Warwick School and the University of Southampton (B.Sc. Psychology, with First Class Honours, 1989). He did his Ph.D. research at the MRC Applied Psychology Unit (now the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit) and the University of Cambridge, graduating in 1993. Ed's first faculty position was at Lancaster University (1993-2003), where he was Lecturer (Assistant Professor), Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) and Associate Dean for Postgraduate Studies, Faculty of Applied Sciences.
In August 2003, Ed moved to the University of Hawai’i at Manoa to join the Department of Psychology as Associate Professor. He served as the Chair of Graduate Studies of the UH Psychology Department from 2004-2007. He was promoted to the rank of Professor in August, 2006. While at UH Manoa, Ed worked collaboratively on research programs in cognitive psychology, particularly on research relating to insight and problem solving,and the neuroscience of migraines. Ed's collaborations reached across the University of Hawai'i campus and around the world. For example, he worked closely with colleagues in Psychology and the John A. Burns School of Medicine at UH, the University of Lancaster in England, and the University of Victoria in British Columbia, Canada. Even after moving to the University of Hawai’i, Ed maintained strong links with the Department of Psychology at Lancaster, and retained the position of Honorary Research Fellow there.
Among Ed's many scholarly accomplishments, he was a fellow of the British Psychological Society and an author on more than 50 publications. His research program received much attention and led to numerous grants, including a large grant from the National Institutes of Health. In 2005 he founded the Journal of Problem Solving. He also supervised a number of graduate and undergraduate students in England and in Hawai’i. Ed was a good friend and colleague to many who will remember him for his charm, his concern for others, his self-effacing sense of humor, and his English lessons. Ed was relied on by many for social support in times of need. He always lent a sensitive ear to any problem. His dry sense of humor won the admiration of friends, students, and colleagues. Ed will be greatly missed by his parents, Peter and Eileen Chronicle, his brother Julian Chronicle and his family, and by all of the friends, colleagues, and students who were enriched by his affable presence.
EDWARD F. CHUI, 78, of Honolulu, died Nov. 15, 2003. Born in Honolulu. Retired University of Hawai'i professor of health, physical education and recreation. Survived by wife, Leonor "Elly"; sons, Aaron and Lorne; daughter, Aprilani McIlwraith; six grandchildren.
THOMAS CIBOROWSKI, was on the faculty of the Department of Psychology from 1972 until his retirement in 2001. He obtained his Ph.D. from the University of California-Irvine under the direction of Douglas Price-Williams. He discarnated in October 2003 at the age of 67 in San Luis Opisbo, California USA.
Tom taught courses in developmental and sports psychology. He also specialized in cross-cultural and philosophical psychology. He served as the Department’s Chair of Undergraduate Studies for several years. He also volunteered as the sports psychologist for the University of Hawaii at Manoa’s Rainbow Baseball Team.
Tom loved baseball. It was the only thing that made philosophical sense to him. With Tom baseball was so sacred that it explained things that the rest of us just didn't understand. Most of the time his colleague friends didn't have a clue what Tom was talking about. Then, once in a while, he came through with a clarity of conceptualization that resembled a freight train.
In addition to doing research on performance enhancement among baseball players, Tom provided supportive counseling and tutoring for the ‘Bow’s and went on the road with the Team. He was convinced that each of those baseball players could realize himself through the game.
Tom befriended many students and colleagues. He had an enthusiasm about life that was contagious. He loved classical music, reading philosophy, riding bicycle, lifting weights, cooking, and playing bridge. He is sorely missed. From Dan Blaine and Elaine Heiby
DOAK CAREY COX, January 16, 1917 - April 21, 2003. A personal memoire by Jacquelin Miller includes this information: "Upon Doak’s retirement from the University in 1985, Dr. Dennis Moore, Director of JIMAR, commented on Doak’s accomplishments with the following: During his entire tenure at U.H. Manoa, Dr. Cox has contributed outstanding research and service in the tsunami and tsunami hazard mitigation area. This has been an area of high social relevance, and his efforts represent an outstanding contribution to the University of Hawaii and the State. As if his tsunami efforts were not enough, Doak served on the organizing committee for the UH Manoa Water Resources Research Center in 1964 and was appointed the first director of WRRC. Many of the current goals of the WRRC were set in place under Dr. Cox’s initial leadership as Director." And there's much much more.
DAVID LIVINGSTON CRAWFORD (1889-1974), for whom Crawford Hall is named, was President of UH, 1927-41
ALICE SUMIE YOSHIMORI DAEUFER , 77, of Honolulu, died May 30, 2004. Born in Wailuku, Maui. An assistant professor retired from the College of Education, University of Hawai'i-Manoa. Survived by husband, Carl; daughter, Sumy; brothers, James and Robert Yoshimori; sisters, Irene Yatsushiro, Helen Sueoka, Sylvia Kimura and Jean Kuwada
VIRGINIA TERESA MOLINA DAY, 102, of Honolulu, died March 30, 2007. Born in East Orange, N.J. A former French professor at University of Hawai'i. Survived by nephew, Edward Molina. Hon. Adv. 4/5/07
ARTHUR LYMAN DEAN (1878-1952), for whom Dean Hall is named, was the University’s second president.
PAUL DURHAM, the athletic director who moved the University of Hawai'i into an era of all-college schedules, NCAA Division I standing and oversaw the foundation for Western Athletic Conference membership, died June 22, 2007 at age 93, according to friends and family. Until the past few years, when failing health took its toll, the man known as UH's "AD emeritus" had been a regular spectator at the school's athletic events and a popular fixture at Honolulu Quarterback Club meetings. "I have a great interest in the program, a great love for the athletes and really enjoy going to the games," Durham said in a 2003 interview. Durham spent seven years as the AD (1968-75) and six additional years teaching in the school's College of Education until his retirement in 1981. He was inducted into UH's Circle of Honor in 1996, the NAIA Hall of Fame in 1969, the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics Hall of Fame in 2006 and the Linfield Hall of Fame in 1998. Harriet Cintron
ANDREW "ANDY" J. EATON, 90, of Frankfort, Mich. and Honolulu, died Dec. 31, 2004. Born in Holley, N.Y. Retired director of libraries, Washington University, St. Louis, Mo.; University of Hawai'i-Manoa, School of Library and Information Science, visiting professor; Fulbright professor, Tehran, Iran. Survived by wife, Mary; daughters, Carolyn Eaton and M. Susan Mundt; six grandchildren; two grandsons. Honolulu Advertiser, January 6, 2004
LEON EDEL, UH English Dept. (1997)
MARJORY PUTNAM SINCLAIR EDEL. Died June 22, 2005. Professor in Dept. of English, she was an accomplished local author and poet who was the widow of former University of Hawaii President Gregg Sinclair. She married him when he was teacher in the UH English Department. He went on to become the university president in 1942. After Sinclair retired in 1955, Edel taught in the UH English Department and worked with the Hawaii Literary Arts Council for 25 years. Sinclair died in 1976. Four years later she married Leon Edel, a UH English professor and Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer of literary figure Henry James.
EARLE ERNST (1911-1994), for whom Ernst Lab Theater is named. He died in Honolulu in 1994, aged 82. He was born in Mifflinm, Pennsylvania. He became a lifelong enthusiast for all things Japanese. Stationed in that country from 1944 Dr Ernst was in charge of the censorship program of Japanese legitimate theatre during the American Occupation. He returned to the US in 1947 and has been widely credited with reviving Japanese theatre studies at the University of Hawaii-Manoa, in the jingoistic years immediately following WW2. His career at the University spanned 32 years and was marked by accomplishments such as the design of the Kennedy Theatre, with its full Kabuki stage - a rarity outside Japan. The author of the seminal work THE KABUKI THEATRE first published in 1956 and the editor of THREE JAPANESE PLAYS in 1959. FINDING MONJU is his only novel.
MARION TERESE EVERSON, 85, of Ma'ili, died May 17, 2007. Born in Wis. Retired professor of art at the University of Hawai'i. Survived by brother, Carl; sister, Harriet Ziemann; seven nieces and nephews. Honolulu Advertiser, Friday, June 8, 2007
POW-FOONG FAN, 71, of Honolulu, died July 30, 2005. Born in Palembang, Indonesia. A professor of geology at University of Hawai'i at Manoa. Survived by wife, Carol;son, Samuel; daughters, Evelyn and Laura; sisters, Grace Yong, Ruth Hu, Mary Yoong, Theresa Lai and Mei-Mei Chang; brother, David.
JANE ZENITH FELLMETH, 86, of Honolulu, died Dec. 12, 2005. Born in Cincinnati. University of Hawai'i associate English professor, and assistant to the chancellor; president, National Council of Teachers of English; and chairwoman, city Ethics Commission -- served on FRAUHM Board in various capacities, 1988-93. Survived by sons, Robert and Dr. Brian; daughter, Enid Rayner; six grandsons.
JORGE FERNANDES. Mourners will gather tonight at Church of the Crossroads to share memories of scholar Jorge Luis Andrade Fernandes, a friend and loved one they affectionately called an "old soul." Fernandes, who was a doctoral student and later a faculty member at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa for 11 years, died Dec. 19 in an automobile accident in State College, Pa. He was 36. Fernandes was born Feb. 26, 1968, in Praia, Cape Verde, off the west coast of Africa. When he was 16, his parents moved their family to Boston, where Fernandes learned English as a senior in high school.
RICHARD FOSTER, Chair of UH English Dept.
DEMARIS LOU FREDERICKSEN, 68, of Pukalani, Maui, a professor emeritus, died in Maui Memorial Medical Center. September 27, 2004She was born in Independence, Miss. She is survived by husband Walter, son Erik, daughter Kirsten Fredericksen Otterson, brother John W. Nebgen and five grandchildren.
JAMES WRIGHT FRIERSON, 98, of Kailua, died March 23, 2005. Born in Gainesville, Texas. Retired professor of English at the University of Hawai'i; retired U.S. Navy lieutenant commander. Survived by wife, Eleanor; son, James Jr.; daughter, Pamela; two grandchildren; Honolulu Advertiser, Sept 1, 2005.
BARBARA LOUISE FRISSELL, 80, of Durango, Colo., formerly of Honolulu, died July 15, 2007. Born in San Francisco. Former chair of March of Dimes and Republican Party of Hawai'i; retired University of Hawai'i, Hamilton Library, head of acquisitions. Survived by sons, Duncan and Langley; daughters, Antoinette Sopocko and Victoria McLaughlin; four grandchildren. Honolulu Advertiser, 8/24/07
TOM FUJIMURA, UH English Dept.
WILLIAM R FURTICK , 80, passed away Wednesday, May 16, 2007, after a lengthy illness. He was Dean of Agriculture and Human Resources at the University of Hawaii, 1976-80. His career was fascinating and he was fortunate enough to have made a difference both nationally and internationally. Born in Salina, Kan., he graduated from Kansas State University and received his MS and PhD. from Oregon State University. There he was Professor of Crop Science and Director of International Plant Protection Center. Mr. Furtick loved teaching and in his words, he "had the best, most outstanding graduate students from all over the world" and cherished them always. During his tenure he was President of Weed Science Society of America, President of Western Weed Science Society, Guest of Honor at the 8th Annual British Weed Control Conference in Brighton, England; awarded the invitational address and membership in National Research Council, National Academy of Science and Fellowship. The Association of Western Agricultural Experiment Station Directors awarded the title of Director Emeritus to him in recognition of his leadership, dedication and outstanding service to agricultural research in the Western Region and the United States. In 1971, the United Nations called him to set up an Agricultural Research Center in Taiwan; later he was Director of Plant Protection Division at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in Rome, Italy; then on to Washington, D.C. with the State Department, periodically living and developing programs in Cairo, Egypt; Amman, Jordan; and Tblisi, Georgia. He worked in or visited all but five countries in the world. Mr. Furtick is survived by his wife Anne of San Luis Obispo, CA. children Bill (Lydia), Randy, Janet (Bill) Raschke, Sjanna, and Sheldon.
WILLIAM HENRY GEORGE (1878-1949) for whom George Hall was named
WILL GERSCH, 78, of Honolulu, died June 29, 2007. A longtime professor and founding member of the Department of Information and Computer Sciences at the University of Hawai'i. Survived by son, David; companion, Katharine McDuffie. Honolulu Advertiser, Aug 12, 2007
HELEN O. GILBERT-BUSHNELL, 80, of Honolulu, a professor emeritus of Art at the University of Hawaii, died April 8,. 2002. She was born in Mare Island, Calif. She is survived by husband Kenneth Bushnell who wrote of her that: Though principally a painter, early in her career, Gilbert-Bushnell pioneered the use of polarized light in kinetic sculpture and moved into abstract work dealing with architectural planes. Her last few paintings were still lifes from nature. She graduated from Punahou School, received her bachelor's degree in art at Mills College in Oakland, Calif., and earned a master's degree in fine art at the University of Hawaii-Manoa, where she taught for 30 years. She also held appointments as visiting professor of art at Parson's School of Design and Pratt Institute in New York.
Gilbert-Bushnell's paintings and prints have been exhibited nationally and internationally. Some of her work was exhibited with the American Abstract Artist Portfolio edition at the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Solomon Guggenheim Museum, the Metropolitan Museum in New York, the Tate Gallery in London and the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. Her work is also part of local collections at the Honolulu Academy of Arts, the Hawaii State Foundation on Culture and the Arts, the Contemporary Museum, the Persis Collection and others. She is survived by husband Kenneth; sisters Patricia Coulter and Mary A. Grady; daughters Rondi Gilbert-Mauldon, Kristin Gilbert, Lisa Gilbert, and Cara M. Gilbert; sons Galen, Gerald, and Fred III; and 10 grandchildren.
JOHN WASHINGTON GILMORE (1872-1942), for whom the old and the new Gilmore halls were named
MADELEINE GOODMAN, a longtime University of Hawaii administrator who pushed equity for women and minority faculty and helped establish the women's studies program, has died of cancer at the age of 51. Goodman left UH in the summer of 1994 after 25 years to become arts and sciences dean at Vanderbilt University. Chancellor Joe B. Wyatt said Goodman fought the cancer "with the same determination and spirit with which she approached her life's work." "Her death leaves a large void in our university community and beyond," Wyatt said. Goodman died Oct. 2, 1996, at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
UH Engineering Dean Paul C. Yuen said her passing is a great loss not only to Vanderbilt but to UH as well. Yuen said Goodman had a keen mind and was an able administrator who wanted to help people. "She always asked, 'What's the problem, what's wrong, and how can we best solve the problem so that everyone will be satisfied?' " he said. "She left an imprint here."
A New York City native, Goodman began her career as a UH assistant professor in general science and women's studies in 1974. In 1978, she help create the women's studies program and served as its director for seven years. She also helped revise UH's sexual harassment policy as well as a new affirmative action plan for the Manoa campus. In 1986, after a year as a full professor, Goodman was named assistant vice president for academic affairs. From 1992-93, she served as as interim senior vice president. A past president of the UH faculty senate, Goodman led the creation of several schools, programs and institutes, including the School of Ocean and Earth Sciences and Technology. "She literally grew into every opportunity given her to serve the university," said sociology Professor Kiyoshi Ikeda, senate co-chairman.
Goodman, who served on the graduate faculty at the John A. Burns School of Medicine, was a noted author and lecturer who twice received National Science Foundation grants. She earned her zoology degree from Barnard College at Columbia University in 1967 and her genetics doctorate from UH in 1973. She is survived by her husband, Lenn Goodman, a philosophy professor at Vanderbilt; daughters Allegra Goodman and Dr. Paula Fraenkel; brother Bertram Schwarzbach; and two grandchildren.
ROBERT C. GOODRIDGE, 90, of Honolulu, died Aug. 24, 2005. Born in New Fane, N.Y. A retired professor of education at the University of Hawai'i. Survived by brother, Paul; sister, Carol Gordon; nieces; nephews.
WYTZE GORTER, an economics professor who was named the first permanent chancellor of the University of Hawai'i-Manoa in 1972, died Tuesday in Kane'ohe. He was 90. Gorter, who was chairman of the economics department at UCLA before he came to UH, was recruited by former university president Tom Hamilton, and held a variety of positions at Manoa. He was dean of the graduate school and director of research from 1964 to 1972. From 1972 to 1974 Gorter was chancellor. He became president of the Faculty Senate in 1975, was a professor of economics in 1978, and was executive director of the University of Hawai'i Research Corp.
JOHN HARDMAN (1933-2006) Veteran professor of Pathology. Dr. John Hardman "was never without his students" at the University of Hawaii John A. Burns School of Medicine, said Dr. Rosanne Harrigan. "He dedicated his whole life to them," said Harrigan, director of faculty development and chairwoman of the Complementary and Alternative Medicine Department. Beloved by students and respected and admired by his colleagues, the chairman of the school's Department of Pathology died May 17 from cancer. "Dr. Hardman was a gentle guiding force and powerful inspiration," said Dr. T. Samuel Shomaker, the school's interim dean, adding that he would be deeply missed. Students invited Hardman to their events and asked him to give the convocation address for the class of 2006 on May 13. He had difficulty speaking, so medical school Associate Dean Damon Sakai read his remarks. "I want to say that my greatest joy in life has always been looking forward to meeting and graduating another class of physicians," Hardman wrote. "Now I find myself being taken care of by JABSOM graduates who are among the best physicians I know." Hardman emphasized to his students first of all to "truly enjoy being a physician." The class surrounded his wheelchair for their graduation photo and gave him a plaque with a paddle "for being the steersman of countless medical students and for helping us navigate the vast sea of medical knowledge ... so that each of us may realize our dreams." The "Hardman Paddle" will be placed on the third floor with a portrait of the professor that the pathology residents are having done, Harrigan said. Hardman taught more than 1,500 pathology students and mentored more than 100 resident pathologists during his 29 years at the school. He received many awards for excellence in teaching.
He earned his medical degree from the University of Colorado School of Medicine and pathology degree from Baylor University. He served 23 years in the U.S. Army, retiring as a colonel in 1977. He served as chief of the pathology department at Walter Reed Army Center and worked at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology in Washington, D.C., Brooke General Hospital in San Antonio and Tripler Army Medical Center. After retiring from the Army, he worked as a neuropathologist with the Clinical Laboratories of Hawaii and at Tripler. He was a medical staff member at five local hospitals and published widely on pathological illnesses, including a study on brain damage to boxers. Hardman was active in numerous professional and community organizations as well as on the board of directors of the UH Professional Assembly. UHPA Associate Director John Radcliffe said Hardman "is simply not replaceable." He led by example, with a "code that put the needs of the many first," Radcliffe said. Survivors include wife Maggie, children Scott Hardman and Shari Irwin, and grandchildren Annie Hardman and Taylor, Jared and Jordy Irwin.
D. ELMO HARDY. “Elmo” to all who knew him personally, was one of the last polymaths in Diptera systematics. His knowledge of Diptera families spanned the order from Nematocera (specializing in Bibionidae), through to the Brachycera (specializing in the families Pipunculidae, Drosophilidae, and Tephritidae). He expanded his knowledge of the systematics to many other Diptera families through his monumental efforts in producing 5 volumes of Diptera for the “Insects of Hawaii” series where he described 581 species in no less than 20 families in the 30 years it took to conduct that research and produce those volumes. He coordinated the cataloging of the Diptera of the Oriental Region in the 1970s, the first and only comprehensive catalog from that region. He helped start the Hawaiian Drosophila project in 1963 which, with the help of numerous collaborators, increased the systematic and genetic knowledge of and stimulated world interest in a group of flies that exhibits one of the most explosive speciation and adaptive radiations of any animal on Earth—the genus Drosophila having upwards of 800 species known only from a tiny group of volcanic islands in the middle of the Pacific. In his almost 70 years of work on flies, he described 1,867 species in 34 different families of Diptera. But his work in systematics was just a part of what Elmo did in the field of entomology and dipterology and is what was most publicized. What is not as well known were the workings — much like the Wizard of Oz — “behind the curtain” in his role as a professor at the University of Hawaii. In that capacity, he assisted numerous students, many from low-income backgrounds from Third World countries throughout the Pacific Rim area, in their education and their careers. Additionally, he was the answer-man for numerous public inquiries on “bugs” that came to the University. Some of these inquiries from housewives, farmers, nursery workers, and children, often led to unique discoveries of native and introduced invertebrates that otherwise might have gone unnoticed for many years.
This is the opening paragraph of an extended Biography of D. Elmo Hardy (1914-2002) published in the D. Elmo Hardy Memorial Volume. Contributions to the Systematics and Evolution of Diptera. Edited by N.L. Evenhuis & K.Y. Kaneshiro. Bishop Museum Bulletin in Entomology 12: 1–11 (2004). Here are a few excerpts:
In June 1948, Elmo was offered jobs at the University of Florida and the University of Hawaii. Extremely anxious to get away from the cold winters of Iowa, Elmo and his family decided to go to Hawai‘i and treat it as a “short vacation”, never thinking that it would be a permanent situation. In October 1948, Elmo, Agnes, and their children (the youngest just born 6 weeks earlier) arrived in Honolulu (Fig. 5). Elmo was hired as an Assistant Professor and was promoted to full professor a few years later. Shortly after settling in Hawai‘i, Elmo began to travel to all the islands to collect and amass as much information and specimens as possible for the Diptera volumes of the Insects of Hawaii series. When Elmo arrived in Hawai‘i, only 197 species of flies were recorded. After publication of 5 volumes of the Insects of Hawaii devoted to Diptera (1960–1981), there were 1,209 species known....
In 1963 Elmo embarked on a project that was to be one of the most prodigious and important for decades to come. After traveling throughout the Hawaiian Islands to survey and assess the Hawaiian Diptera fauna, it became apparent to Elmo that Hawai‘i was exceptionally fertile ground for evolutionary studies and that one group of flies in particular had taken the opportunity to evolve into many species to the extreme. For 50 years, species in the family Drosophilidae (especially Drosophila Evenhuis melanogaster) had been among the premier animals used the world over for genetics research because they have giant chromosomes that are easily studied and they are easily reared in laboratories. In Hawai‘i, the species of the genus Drosophila have not only speciated tremendously (almost 400 endemic species — ca. one-third of the world’s fauna), but include a significant number of species in which gigantism has occurred. The explosive evolution of these flies intrigued Elmo and he started giving seminars wherever he went extolling the virtues of Hawai‘i as a “living laboratory of evolution”. When Elmo gave a speech at the University of Texas, it did not take long for geneticist Wilson Stone to be convinced and he quickly worked with Elmo in writing a grant proposal to conduct work on what would become known as the Hawaiian Drosophila Project. The National institutes of Health intitally funded the program for about 5 years before the National Science foundation helped with funding. The founding participants in the project included such luminaries as Hampton L. Carson, Marshall Wheeler, Frances E. Clayton, William B. Heed, Herman T. Speith, Harrison D. Stalker, and H. Lynn Throckmorton. Research began in June 1963 and further collaborators such as Michael Kambysellis, Elysse Craddock, Theodosius Dobzhansky, Francisca C. do Val, Jong Sik Yoon, Alan Templeton, and others took up the mantra... After serving the University as professor and graduate advisor for 32 years and chairing its department from 1958 to 1968, Elmo finally retired from the University of Hawaii in December 1980...
The year 1998 was to be a special one for Elmo. Through the coordination and efforts of a number of colleagues, Elmo and Elwood C. Zimmerman (“Zimmie”) received the University of Hawaii’s Board of Regent’s Medal of Distinction in honor of their contributions to the internationally renowned Insects of Hawaii, which was marking its 50th anniversary since Zimmie founded the series in 1948. A lavish ceremony (Fig. 6) in concert with a special symposium with paper presentations by numerous colleagues in their honor was followed by a special reception at College Hill, the historic Hawaiian home of the President of the University of Hawaii. Elmo was humbled by all the fuss and proceedings and refused to make a speech, saying he “had given up public speaking years ago”. However, the rare image of Elmo and Zimmie together for the first time is one that no one who was there that evening will ever forget. Elmo was always humble yet had a certain strength of character and perseverance that got him through most of the difficult times in his life. However, that strength that he had in overcoming his personal losses and stroke were not enough to survive a broken hip that occurred after falling at home in September 2002. After seeming to be making a comeback in the hospital, he caught pneumonia and took a turn for the worst. He tried to battle it, but soon gave way to the inevitable and passed away on 17 October 2002.
LEROY STANLEY HARMS, Jan. 28, 2004, also known as Stanley Harms, 75, of Honolulu, a retired University of Hawaii at Manoa Department of Communications professor, died in St. Francis Medical Center. He was born in Spink County, S.D. He is survived by wife Joan Y.; sons John W. and William F.; daughters Kristina Kekuewa and Kathleen H. Sheffield; sisters Arlene Baseman, Beverly Gerlach and Lucille Gruenwald; and five grandchildren.
SINIKKA HAYASAKA STRAND, Dec. 2005, Linguistics. Strand, who had been professionally known as R. Sinikka Hayasaka, spent 39 years at UH and retired as a professor of linguistics. She had also been acting provost of Leeward Community College. She was a founding member of the faculty union and its president for six years. Born March 27, 1940 in Finland, Ritva Sinikka was Miss Finland in 1958. She was fluent in Finnish, Japanese, English, Swedish, German and Spanish, and had experience as a broadcaster in Finland, Japan and the United States. She was active in the National Education Association including service as counsel to then-NEA President Robert Chase. She was a trustee of the Hawaii Public Employees Health Fund.
CHARLES REED HEMENWAY (1875-1947), for whom Hemenway Hall is named
LOUIS ALBERT HENKE (1889-1985 ), for whom Henke Hall is named
ELIZABETH ALICE HIATT, 87, of Honolulu, died June 17, 2004. Born in Palo Alto, Calif. A retired teacher and widow of past University of Hawai'i acting president Robert W. Hiatt. Survived by sons, Gerald and William; daughters, Judith Tuttle; sister, Helen Highman; seven grandchildren; two great-grandchildren.
VIRGINIA HOLLINGSHEAD, 95, Died 29 May 2006. She was born in Mingo Junction, Ohio. Retired as Professor of English.
WILFRED JAY HOLMES (1900-1986), for whom Holmes Hall is named
PILL WHOON HONG, 82, of Honolulu, died Oct. 8, 2004. Born in South Korea. A doctor and professor at the University of Hawai'i and Yonsei University in Seoul, South Korea. Survived by wife, Julie; sons, Steven, Walter and Robert; five grandchildren; sister, Grace Un Young Pak.
RUTH WILLARD IAMS, 93, of Clackamas, Ore., formerly of Honolulu, died
Oct. 6, 2005. Born in Chicago. Retired University of Hawai'i psychology
teacher; UH Counseling Center counselor; founding member, Unitarian
Church of Honolulu; former president, University of Hawai'i Faculty
Senate; League of Women Voters member. Survived by children, Judy,
Jennifer, Jean and Jim; six grandchildren; one great-granddaughter.
HIROKO IKEDA, 91, of Honolulu, died Nov. 2, 2005. Born in Tokyo, Japan. University of Hawai'i at Manoa, professor emerita of Japanese literature; author; Honolulu Academy of Arts volunteer and benefactor; and recipient of the Japanese Award of the Order of the Sacred Treasure, with gold rays and rosette. Survived by nieces, Michiko urata and Akiko Nakamoto; nephew, Kiyoshi.
RICHARD "HUNNY" INSKEEP , 81, of Honolulu, died June 16, 2004. Born in Ohio. A retired chemistry professor and University of Hawai'i department chairman. Survived by wife, Margaret.
JOHN ALEXANDER JOHNSON (1914-1944), for whom Johnson Hall is named
LORRAINE MILILANI KAINA, 77, of Honolulu, died June 4, 2007. Born in Honolulu. Retired assistant professor at University of Hawai'i-Manoa. Survived by nieces and nephews, Roberta Thomas, Dalbert Azevedo, Marcia Langendoen, William, Jamie, Jonnetta, and John; sister-in-law, Barbara. Honolulu Advertiser, June 26, 2007
HENRY S. KARIEL, 80, died July 8, 2004. University of Hawaii Political Science professor. He was born in Plauen, Germany. He was a leading philosopher of politics -- an assessment of his contributions can be found in Eugene F. Miller Positivism, Historicism, and Political Inquiry.
NOEL PRICE 'NED' KEFFORD, longtime dean of the UHM College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources and an influential figure in Hawai'i's agriculture industry, died March 28, 1999, a little over a week after the UH Board of Regents honored him with the Regents' Medal of Distinction. He was 72. The Regents' Medal recognizes Kefford for his leadership and service to the University and the state in promoting research, education and service in tropical agriculture and human resources. In introducing the proposal to honor Kefford, UH Senior Vice President and UHM Executive Vice Chancellor Dean O. Smith commented: "Dr. Kefford guided the college through some very turbulent times, including the demise of sugar as a major crop and the rise of diversified agriculture. He insisted that CTAHR, as one of the founding colleges of the University, remain a vital part of the UH system and meet the need for agriculture expertise in the state. He responded to the citizens of the University-students, faculty and staff-and of the state-farmers, business people and consumers."
Born in Melbourne, Australia, Kefford earned a BS in chemistry from the University of Melbourne and a PhD in botany and plant physiology from the University of London, sparking his life-long interest in plant development and differentiation and mechanisms of regulation. He left a position as principal research officer in the Plant Industry Division at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization to join the University of Hawai'i faculty in 1965 as chair of the UHM Department of Botany. His association with CTAHR began the following year, when he also became chair of the Department of Plant Physiology. His introductory botany course consistently received the highest rating from students, peaking at an enrollment of 450 students per year during the early 1970s.
Kefford was appointed acting associate director of the Hawai'i Agriculture Experiment Station in 1976. After serving as director of the Hawai'i Institute of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources, he was named interim dean of CTAHR in 1980 and appointed permanently to the latter post two years later. During his 15 year tenure as dean-the longest in CTAHR history-he developed international linkages, secured extramural funding, initiated cooperative projects and information exchanges and more. Even his retirement in 1995 couldn't end his involvement on the college's behalf. Kefford built programs in plant and biological sciences across departmental and college boundaries. He helped establish the UHM Biology Program. He led the planning and design of St. John and Pope Laboratories, which made it possible to bring all the plant science departments on the Manoa campus together in one complex.
As a scientist, he contributed both to basic knowledge on regulation of plant growth and development and practical questions concerning the health of industry and management of science and scientists. He developed Industry Analysis, a nationally recognized program planning and implementation process for identifying bottlenecks in agricultural production and/or distribution and for finding solutions. The process has been employed repeatedly in 26 Hawai'i industries over the past 18 years. It was adopted by the Governor's Agricultural Coordinating Committee as a primary tool for meeting the committee's legislative mandate. As recently as 1995, he traveled to Beijing to conduct a workshop for science managers throughout China. Kefford's contributions to the state also include service on 13 boards and committees, including the Board of Agriculture, Land Evaluation and Site Assessment Commission, Governor's Blue Ribbon Committee on the Sugar Industry and Governor's Conference on Hawai'i's International Role. He recruited students from Asia and the Pacific and pursued projects throughout the tropics and the world. He was the administrative adviser to a project that brought scientists from land-grant universities together with U.S. Department of Agriculture laboratories in the Western region to address movement of chemicals through soil into groundwater. He served as principal investigator of the South Pacific Region Agricultural Development Project and Agricultural Development of the American Pacific Project, helping institutions in those regions develop resources to solve regional problems.
The dean also welcomed input. He created an advisory council of leaders from the agricultural community to ensure that CTAHR would be client-driven and industry responsive. He was particularly successful in marshaling state and federal funds to address Hawai'i's agricultural needs. His most recent legacy-the $27 million Agricultural Sciences III laboratory and office building-is being constructed with matching state and federal funds. The facility is expected to be ready for occupancy within a few months, providing CTAHR scientists with safe, state-of-the-art laboratories in which to continue their groundbreaking work. Kefford is survived by his wife Helen, son Hugh "Keith" and daughters Michele Winter and Louise Ching.
ARTHUR RIPONT KELLER (1882-1961), for whom Keller Hall is named.
ROBERT "BOB" HERMAN KESSNER, 87, of Honolulu, died Sept. 30. 2006. Born in Patchogue, Long Island, N.Y. Retired professor at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa. Survived by sons, Robert and Richard; nine grandchildren; two great-grandchildren.
EDGAR "Ned" F. KIEFER, 69, of Kailua, died Nov. 29, 2003. Born in Tsingtao, China. Educated at Stanford and Caltech, he joined the University of Hawai'i chemistry department in 1964, retired in 1999; chairman of the chemistry department from 1994 to 1999. Survived by wife, Diane; daughters, Lauren Schantz and Miranda Scott; sons, Nicholas, Daniel, Harrison and Britton; nine grandchildren.
NORA KIRKPATRICK, 90, died June 4, 2007. Economist in the public and private sector; founding member of University of Hawai'i Women's Campus Hiking Group. Survived by children, Margaret, Malcom and Eleanor; grandchildren, Marian and Andrew. Honolulu Advertiser, Friday, June 8, 2007
OTTO KLUM (1875-1944), for whom Klum Gym is named
OSCAR KURREN, a former University of Hawai'i professor and community activist on behalf of the mentally ill and the aged, died June 4, 2004. He was 82. In 1969, Kurren followed one of his Brandeis University professors to the University of Hawai'i. He was a professor for 27 years at UH before retiring in the early 1990s. "He was always a very driven, energetic, passionate guy, and that stands out in my mind about the way he pursued life," said his son, U.S. Magistrate Barry Kurren. "I often say that if anybody accuses me of having any compassion in my work it is due to him." Oscar Kurren was born in Pittsburgh on July 24, 1921. He did his undergraduate work at the University of Pittsburgh, where he was part of the ROTC program and a member of the swim team. While a member of the Panther swim team, Kurren was considered for the U.S. Olympic Trials, his son said.
RALPH SIMPSON KUYKENDALL (1885-1963), for whom Kuykendall Hall is named
BARRY J. LaBONTE, 55, of Columbia, Md., formerly of Kane'ohe, died Oct. 24, 2005. Longtime University of Hawai'i, Institute for Astronomy professor and astronomer; Johns Hopkins University, Applied Physics Laboratory, Space Department, principal professional staff member; widely published in solar physics. Survived by wife, Beatrice; children, Allan, Hillary and Anna; father, William; sister, Karen Beauchesne; brother, William. Hon. Adv. 12/13/05
KENNETH KEONG LAU, 91, of Honolulu, died Jan. 30, 2007. Born in Honolulu. University of Hawai'i administrator and professor. Survived by sons, Laurence and Arnold; sisters, Violet Lee, Susan Chun and Yan Kwai Cron; two grandsons. Honolulu Advertiser, Feb. 7, 2007
WILLIAM P. LEBRA, 64, died Jan 1, 1986. He was Director of the Social Science Research Institute and Prof. of Anthropology. A third-generation American of Czecho-Slovakian and German descents, He was born in St. Paul in 1922. As a University of Minnesota undergraduate, Bill joined the Army during WWII as a cryptographer to read Japanese secret messages. Eventually Bill obtained a PhD at Harvard University, was invited to Hawaii as an East-West Center scholar, and appointed the director of the newly created Social Science Research Institute at the University of Hawaii under the Hamilton-Hyatt administration while holding a professorship it the Anthropology Department. His research focused on Okinawa, specifically Okinawan religion and shamans as represented in his book, Okinawan religion, and a dozen articles. He abruptly passed away on Jan. 1, 1986 from cardiac arrest. Takie Lebra
ORLAND SCOTT LEFORGE. a former member of the UH Speech Department, died in July4, 2007.He was born in Pettisville, Ohio. (Bob Potter reports that he also served as a staff member for Sen. Daniel Inouye in Washington and later was an administrator in the UH Community College office.) Survived by companion, Thelma Young; son, Daniel; daughters, Andrea Harper and Mia Blake; brother, Marian; three grandchildren; one great-grandson.
EDNA LEE PEGRAM LEIB, 90, died Aug. 11, 2006. Born in Littleton, N.C. Brought to Hawai'i to develop the University of Hawai'i teacher program and Laboratory School. Survived by nephews, Jack and David Stuart; niece, Lee Anne Stuart Stiffler.
WERNER LEVI who fled Nazi Germany and went on to become a renowned author and scholar in international relations and a professor of political science at the University of Hawai'i from 1963 until his retirement in 1976, died Sunday at the age of 92. Levi wrote 10 books on international relations, and at UH played a crucial role in the formative days of the development of the UH faculty union, as well as faculty retirement policy. Levi had three doctorate degrees — in jurisprudence and canon law from the University of Frebourg in Switzerland, and in political science from the University of Minnesota.
RICHARD WARREN LIEBAN, 83, of Honolulu, formerly of Norfolk, Va.; New York City; Chicago, China, North Carolina, and Washington, D.C., died Sept. 4, 2004. Born in New York City, N.Y. Retired department head, University of Hawai'i at Manoa, Department of Anthropology and Sociology. Survived by wife, Ruth; brother, Robert.
MARY RANKIN LIVINGSTON, 97, of Honolulu, died March 14, 2005. Born in Kansas City, Kan. Professor at the University of Kansas and the University of Hawai'i. Survived by friend/caregiver, Linda Kamai. Honolulu Advertiser, March 22, 2005
ROGER ALAN LONG, died April 30, 2007, at 68. He was an eminent director/actor who also had a passion for Indonesian wayang kulit (Javanese shadow puppetry). "Roger was highly intelligent, sensitive and creative — and enormously caring," said Glenn Cannon, an actor, director and University of Hawai'i professor, who was to direct Long in Manoa Valley Theatre's revival of "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" in January, before Long's illness forced him to withdraw. "He faced death with a grace and courage that awed and inspired me," said Karen "Bree" Bumatai, a longtime theater friend who had been rehearsing with Long for the MVT show. "Roger was the reason I got back on stage this year. I jumped at the chance to spend more time with him and have the opportunity to work with someone of his caliber, for whom I felt such overwhelming respect. I was so sad when he was robbed of that opportunity (to play George) ... but I'm so glad he is out of pain."
Local audiences will recall his Kennedy Theatre productions of rarely performed Indonesian and Balinese dramas, including "Balinese Kecak" and "Kapai-Kapai," which challenged student actors and audiences alike with their risky reach into intercultural themes and traditions, and their integration of rituals and dances fusing music and masks. He also directed more conventional classics, such as "The Fantasticks." Long earned Po'okela Awards for his direction of influential American dramas, including "Wit" and "Angels in America, Part I" at MVT, where he also mounted such shows as "Shirley Valentine" and "Deathtrap."
Late last year, when his diagnosis indicated that time was running out, Long e-mailed friends and colleagues about his decision to forgo additional treatments in order to maintain his quality of life. "I have elected to enjoy my life, my family, my friends, my time," he wrote. "When I made that decision ... I immediately felt a calmness, a centeredness, a certainty that I had been missing for months and months. There are difficult days ahead, of course. But I will now concentrate on my appreciation of having quality time, and of sharing it with so many wonderful friends."
Long was a professor emeritus of Asian theater. He was a professor and associate dean of the College of Arts and Humanities at the University of Hawai'i before retiring in 2005. He served as chairman of its Department of Theatre and Dance, professor of Southeast Asian Theatre and director of the Southeast Asian Studies Program. He lived, studied, researched and worked in Indonesia, where he was widely known because of his teaching and stage credentials in Malaysia and Java. He explored the cultural phenomenon of Javanese shadow puppetry, one of the many aspects of theater he devoted his life to, and was a regular member of the UH gamelan orchestra over the years. He became interested in Asian theater while earning a master's degree at Michigan State University. Long earned a doctorate in Asian theater from UH in 1979. An Illinois native, he was born Dec. 13, 1938, in Centralia and raised in Decatur. At Decatur High School, he lettered in tennis and played in the orchestra. Long also had a bachelor's degree in theater from Southern Illinois University. Survivors include a sister, Janice Long, and a brother, Ross Thompson, both of Decatur, and many nieces and nephews.
PATRICIA BUTLER LOPES, 62 of Kane'ohe, died July 14, 2006. Born in Minneapolis, Minn., she was a faculty member in the College of Education. (Hon.Adv. 19 July 06)
LEONARD MASON, 92, a retired University of Hawai'i-Manoa professor and noted authority on Pacific Islands anthropology, died October 8, 2005 at Pohai Nani Good Samaritan Retirement Community in Kane'ohe. He was 92. Mason, a Seattle native, taught at the UH-Manoa campus from 1947 to 1969. He was one of the founders of UH's Pacific Island Studies program and headed the anthropology department for several years, according to a 1997 newsletter article by Glenn Petersen of Baruch College/City University of New York.
CHARLES JAMES McCARTHY (1861-1929), for whom McCarthy Mall is named
JAMES MILLER McCUTCHEON, 73, of Honolulu, died Feb. 7, 2006. Born in New York City. Professor of American Studies and History at the University of Hawai'i. President of FRAUHM (Faculty Retirees Associaton / UHM) 200-2002. Survived by wife, Elizabeth; sons, Ian and Eric; brother, John; three grandchildren.
ALLEN MCGREGOR, UH English Dept., died 1992
NORMAN MELLER. 86, died July 2000. His University of Hawaii affiliation ran from 1947 to 1977. He was director of the Legislative Reference Bureau in 1947-1955 and held the title of UH political science professor from 1955 to 1977, serving a few years as department chairman. Also, he was briefly acting deputy chancellor of the East-West Center. His earlier career included service as a deputy from 1938 to 1946 with the California Department of Legislative Counsel, with time out for World War II Navy service as a Japanese language officer from 1943 to 1945. His strong attachment to the Pacific led to visiting professorships in Australia, Canada, Japan and the U.S. mainland. He had numerous consultantships, including one with the U.S. Senate Committee to American Samoa in 1960 and another with the Micronesian Constitutional Convention in 1975. He published eight books and scholarly monographs, 10 chapters in edited books and 25 articles in learned journals. Titles included "Land and Politics in Hawaii," "Fiji Goes to the Polls," "Papers on the Papua-New Guinea House of Assembly," "The Congress of Micronesia," "Constitution Making in Hawaii," and "Institutionalized Adaptability: Legislative Reference in Japan and the United States."
GERALDINE MAURER, 100, died in May 2007.
WALTER MAURER, Emeritus Professor of Sanskrit, Dept. of Indo-European Languages. He and Geraldine were Phi Beta Kappa Members. Walter was Secretary of that Society for over 20 years. He was conversant in many languages, both modern and ancient.
CAREY DUNLAP MILLER (1893-1985), for whom Miller Hall in named
EDWIN LEROY MILLER, 76, of Waikiki, formerly of Ann Arbor, Mich., died July 10, 2005. Born in Oakland, Calif. A professor at University of Hawai'i at Manoa Business School & Pacific Asian Marketing Institute. Survived by wife, Frances; son, Erich; daughters, Rebecca and Jane; five grandchildren.
WALLACE C MITCHELL 75, died in June 1996. He was fascinated by insects. So fascinated, he even ate them. "He's tried termites" said Pamela Pleus, Mitchell's daughter. He also tried ants and several other bugs said Pleus. Mitchell, a retired entomologist at the University of Hawaii. "When we were young he took us on nature walks and always encouraged us to pick up the frog, the roach or lizard or chameleon," Pleus said. "He had a real strong love for life and an infectious sense of humor," Pleus said. Mitchell, was chairman of the University of Hawaii entomology department. He then became acting dean of the College of Tropical Agriculture and retired in 1985 as the acting dean of Academic Affairs. He also belonged to several entomology societies. Mitchell is survived by wife Shizuko "Sue"; daughters Teri Durland and Janyce Mitchell; brother Paul; and two grandchildren
CHARLES A. MOORE (1901-1967) professor of philosophy for whom Moore Hall was named
LES MURAKAMI (1936- ), for whom the Les Murakami Baseball Stadium is named
WINFIELD E NAGLEY,
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YUKIO NAKAGAWA, 87, of Honolulu,
died Oct. 14, 2005. Born in Honolulu. Retired horticulturalist for the University
of Hawai'i-Manoa. Survived by wife, Elaine; son
Franklin; daughter, Dale Santos; four grandchildren; sister, Catherine Murashige.
SHIGERU "CHARLIE" NAKATA, 86, of Honolulu, died July 21, 2006. Born in Waimanalo. Retired University of Hawai'i at Manoa professor of plant physiology; member of 100th Battalion; and disabled veteran. Survived by sons, Wayne and Lloyd; five grandsons. Honolulu Advertiser, July 27, 2006
SHIGEO OKUBO, 90, of Honolulu, died Nov. 2, 2005. Born in Osaka, Japan. A research engineer and former University of Hawai'i professor. Survived by wife, Fung Kai; sons, Myron and Paul; daughters, Lisa and Janice; sister, Setsu; four grandchildren. Honolulu Advertiser, November 19, 2005
MAE ZENKE ORVIS ( -1996), for whom Orvis Auditorium is named
MORRIS SOO YOUNG PANG, 80, of Honolulu died Nov. 17, 2004. Born in Honolulu. Retired professor in the Department of Education at the University of Hawai'i with 30 years of service. Survived by son, Michael; daughter, Carolyn; sisters, Nora, Ruth and Agnes.
VINCENT Z PETERSON UH Physicist. Peterson died May 17, 2007, in Berkeley, Calif., at 85. "A lot of people outside the sciences remember Vince for what he contributed to forming academic policy and the academic atmosphere on campus," Michael Jones said. Peterson was elected to several terms on the UH Faculty Senate. He upheld the right of a scientist to pursue research, a debate that was revived last year over the proposed creation of a University Affiliated Research Center at Manoa that raised opposition to classified military aspects of work to be done there. Soon after his arrival in Hawaii in 1963, Peterson got Atomic Energy Commission funding for particle physics research, according to the UH Department of Physics and Astronomy Web page. The UH physicists did work at the University of California at Berkeley Radiation Laboratory, the Stanford University Linear Accelerator Center and Fermilab in Illinois. "The main thing he was involved in was experiments involving neutrinos," Jones said. Scientists study neutrinos -- high-energy, invisible elementary particles detectable only by interactions or collisions with matter -- in research that could lead to an understanding of the origins of the universe.
"One thing he did that really helped put Hawaii on the map in terms of particle physics was to organize a series of summer conferences that brought distinguished scientists, including Nobel Prize winners, as lecturers," Jones said. Young physicists and students had the opportunity to meet with the leading researchers in a summer school format that has been used as a model elsewhere. Peterson retired in 1992 and moved to California in 2002. He was born in Galesburg, Ill., and served in the Navy during World War II. He received his doctorate in physics from UC-Berkeley, and taught high-energy physics at the California Institute of Technology for 12 years before moving to Hawaii. He is survived by son Galen; daughters Karen, Andrea and Ingrid; and five grandchildren. "Today we received a message from Vince Peterson's daughter Karen saying that Vince died yesterday at noon. He had pneumonia and had been transferred from an assisted living facility to a hospital in Berkeley. "Vince's family will write a personal memorial and some of us at UH will write something about his many contributions, physics and otherwise, at UH. Let one of us know if you want to contribute some memories of Vince. "Michael Peters & Michael Jones" See Tribute and obituary
STANLEY D. PORTEUS ( ) for whom the Saunders Hall was originally named
WILLIAM SHAW RICHARDSON (1919- ), for whom the William S. Richardson School of Law is named
JAMES C. SADLER , 1920-2005, an internationally noted meteorologist who had a distinguished career in the Air Force and at the University of Hawaii, where he taught 22 years,died Sept. 2 2005, at Tripler Army Medical Center. He was 85. "He was one of the foremost meteorologists of his time, and one of the founders of tropical meteorology as a discipline," said Tom Schroeder, director of the Joint Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research and former chairman of the UH meteorology department. Sadler joined UH as associate meteorologist in the Institute of Geophysics in 1965 and retired as professor of meteorology in 1987. Honolulu Star-Bulletin, Wednesday, September 7, 2005
ROBERT SAKAI, died August 15, 2004, a historian, University of Hawai'i dean and former president of the Japan-America Society of Hawai'i. He was 85. Sakai was born on April 3, 1919, in Riverside, Calif. He received a bachelor's degree in history at the University of California-Berkeley in 1941, but his graduate education was interrupted by World War II. Sakai and his fiancee were sent to different internment camps during the war. They eventually wound up in the Poston Relocation Center in Arizona, where they married. Robert and Sady Sakai were able to leave the camp when Robert volunteered for the Military Intelligence Service. Following the war, Sakai received his master's and doctorate degrees from Harvard University. From 1951 to 1966, Sakai taught at the University of Nebraska, where he also served as chairman of the history department. In the summer of 1964, Sakai was a visiting history professor at the University of Hawai'i and two years later joined the UH history department. Sakai was a scholar of Japanese history and he had a long career with the university. In addition to his teaching duties, he served as UH summer session dean and vice chancellor for academic affairs.
SHUNZO SAKAMAKI (1906-1973), for whom Sakamaki Hall in named
STEPHEN HENRY SAUL, 66, died on Aug. 29,2007. He was Associate Etomologist, Dept. of Plant and Environmental Protection Sciencs. In addition to his work in plant genetics, Dr. Saul was Pesident of thePacific Orchid Society of Hawaii. For years, he presented in-depth lectures and talks on "classical music".
ALLAN SAUNDERS (1897-2001) for whom Saunders Hall is named
BRUCE STANLEY SHERIFF (1933-1993), for whom the Stan Sheriff Center is named
DONALD GEORGE SHERMAN (1904-1973) for whom the Sherman Lab is named
MARTIN SHERMAN, 84, of Honolulu, died March 16, 2005. Born in Newark, N.J. University of Hawai`i entomology professor. Survived by daughters, Laurel Englehart and Susan Kitakis; brother, Leonard; six grandchildren; six great-grandchildren.
JAY H. SHIDLER, for whom the Shidler College of Business is named
MINORU SHINODA , University of Hawai'i professor emeritus, died Oct. 12, 2006 at the age of 91. He was born on a Ka'u sugar plantation on the Big Island and rose to become a noted Japan historian who was honored in 1997 with the Japanese government's Imperial Decoration, Order of the Rising Sun with Gold Rays and Rosette for promoting cultural ties between the United States and Japan. "Those decorations are generally given to people who made outstanding contributions to Japanese and American friendship and understanding," said friend and fellow professor emeritus John Stephan, who worked with Shinoda through his long career at UH, first as a student and then a colleague. "He was a meticulous scholar but also a gentleman and a gentle man."
Shinoda, who taught Japanese and Asian history at the University of Hawai'i from 1957 to 1984 and served as a vice-chancellor of the East-West Center from 1966 to 1970, came from a distinguished line of Hawai'i educators. His father, Yoshio Shinoda, ran a Japanese language school first in Ka'u and later in Hilo, where the family moved in 1919. His mother, Ima Shinoda, taught embroidery and flower-arranging. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, the elder Shinoda was one of the Japan-born educators and Japanese community leaders rounded up by police and sent to internment camps in Hawai'i or on the Mainland, said Stephan. It fractured the family, even though within a few months the elder Shinoda was released because his two sons were serving in the U.S. war effort. "He told his sons, 'You are American, I am Japanese,' " relates Stephan, "and he urged his sons to be loyal Americans."
Minoru Shinoda, who by then had completed undergraduate work at UH plus two years in Japan on the Friend-Peace Scholarship before returning to UH for graduate studies, resigned to serve as an interpreter for the Provost Marshal's Office in Honolulu. "He actually interrogated the first prisoner of war," said his daughter, Elizabeth Williams. In 1943 Shinoda joined the U.S. Military Intelligence Service Language School in Minnesota, staying on to teach Japanese language and history to interpreters. It was here, in 1944, where he met and married his wife, Emiko Tsuboi. After the war, Shinoda completed his academic training at Columbia University, where he earned a doctoral degree, and was mentored by two of the pre-eminent men of their time in his field — Englishman George Sansom, the premier 20th-century scholar of Japanese history, and Ryusaku Tsunoda, an extraordinary teacher who founded the Japanese section of Columbia's Chinese and Japanese Department in the 1920s. But during those New York years from the late 1940s into the mid-1950s, what his children remember are the happy days of living in converted Army barracks at Camp Shanks, N.Y., which served as subsidized housing for veterans and grad students back in school as aspiring artists, writers and scholars. "There were summer Scrabble games by lantern light," recalled Williams. "My father loved Scrabble and the Yankees, before moving back to Hawai'i where his love of sports continued with UH sports. He holds season tickets to football and basketball even now and I remember when he first taught me how to recognize a first down."
In 1960, the Columbia University Press published Shinoda's manuscript, "The Founding of the Kamakura Shogunate" based on his translation of part of the Azuma Kagami, a major chronicle of samurai society from the late 12th to the late 13th centuries, a period that covers the beginning of the medieval age in Japan. "He wrote the first monograph of medieval Japanese history," said history professor emeritus Paul Varley, another colleague at UH. "The rest of the world followed in his path." It was Shinoda who first translated key portions of the document, which means "Mirror of the East," and whose translation has since been used by other scholars. "It's still an important document for students and teachers," said Varley. Karen Jolly, chairman of the UH History Department, called Shinoda's book "a model monograph of research" that is still used today. "Making that available was a major step," she said.
After his retirement, Shinoda continued his interests as a historian, helping found the Joseph Heco Society under the umbrella of the Japanese Cultural Center of Hawai'i to explore the history of famed Japanese castaways around the 1850s — Manjiro and Heco — who played crucial roles in helping open Japan to the outside world. An exhibit telling their stories has been part of the Honolulu Festival held each March. As a historian, Shinoda also had a peculiar way of answering even the simplest question asked by one of his children. "His answer would inevitably begin with, 'In the 15th century ... ' " said Williams, "or 'In 1898 ... ' " One of the stories he liked to share, especially with his children, was how as a 6-year-old he fell into a sugar-cane flume in Hilo, riding the whole way down to the mill on a pile of sugar cane before being plucked to safety by mill workers alerted to the danger when his sister ran home for help. Shinoda is survived by his wife, Emiko; daughters, Elizabeth Williams and Jean Turk; son, Robert; sister, Shiho Nunes; brother, Takashi; and three grandchildren.
GLENDON SHUBERT, died Jan. 2006. He returned to the University of Hawaii at Manoa in 1968 as an East-West Fellow and became a permanent member of the Department of Political Science with the newly-created rank of university professor in 1971. He was awarded the Regents Medal for Excellence in Research in 1975. From 1986 to 1991. Schubert was also Research Professor at Southern Illinois University, becoming Emeritus Professor there in 1991. After a distinguished career primarily focused on research, he officially retired from UH Manoa in July 2000. His major books Evolutionary Politics (1989), Primate Politics (1991), and Research in Biopolitics, Vol. 5 (1997), co-edited with his son, James Schubert, and Steven Peterson. Schubert received a Lifetime Career Achievement Award in 1994 from the Association of Politics and Life Sciences.
A colleague, Jim Dator, prepared the following obituary: Glendon Schubert, one of the most creative and influential political scientists of the mid 20th Century, died on January 15, 2006, in Seattle, Washington, following a long illness. He was 87 years old.
Schubert was born in Oneida, New York on June 7, 1918. He received his AB (magna cum laude) in English and Mathematics from Syracuse University in 1940 and a PhD from Syracuse in Political Science in 1948. He served in the US Army, Signal Corps (Intelligence) from 1942-46 as a first lieutenant and was awarded a Bronze Star.
After teaching in the political science departments of several universities on the US east and west coasts briefly from 1947-1951, Schubert settled down in the Political Science Department of Michigan State University in East Lansing from 1952 through 1967, rising from assistant to full professor. He was also a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, 1960-61 and a Senior Scholar in Residence, Institute of Advanced Projects, East-West Center in Honolulu, 1963-1965. After brief visits at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill and York University near Toronto, Canada, Schubert came to the University of Hawaii in 1968 again as an East-West Fellow and became a permanent member of the Department of Political Science with the newly-created rank of University Professor in 1971. He was awarded the Regents' Medal for Excellence in Research in 1975. From 1986 to 1991, Schubert was also Research Professor at Southern Illinois University, becoming Emeritus Professor there in 1991. After a distinguished career primarily focused on research, he officially retired from the University of Hawaii in July 2000.
Schubert was largely responsible for creating two subdisciplines within political science. One was judicial behavior and the other was biopolitical behavior. The latter emerged from his deeper understanding of the roots of the former. Scholars in the field of judicial behavior recognized that values, opinions and attitudes that judges held explained an important part of their reasoning and decisions on the bench. This was a controversial and often-denied position at the time, but he and many others established the validity and importance of the argument in studies of judges in many jurisdictions around the world, correlating judicial attitudes and life-experiences with the ideological direction of their judicial decisions in an impressively large number of studies and publications. Work in this field still continues among political scientists worldwide. In 1999, Schubert received a Lifetime Career Achievement Award from the American Political Science Association for his pioneering and continuing work in judicial behavior.
His first published work in judicial behavior was "The Study of Judicial Decision-Making as an Aspect of Political Behavior," American Political Science Review (December 1958) followed by scores of articles and research reports. Among his major books in judicial behavior are, Quantitative Analysis of Judicial Behavior (1959), Constitutional Politics: The Political Behavior of Supreme Court Justices and the Constitutional Policies That They Make (1960), Judicial Decision-Making (1963), Judicial Policy-Making (1965), The Judicial Mind: The Attitudes and Ideologies of Supreme Court Justices (1965), Political Attitudes and Ideologies: A Cross-Cultural Interdisciplinary Approach (1977), Comparative Judicial Study (1981), and ending with Political Culture and Judicial Behavior (Two Volumes)(1985).
During the late 1970s, Schubert recognized that there must be a biological basis for the attitudes and behavior of judges (and all humans), and so he took two years out of his already illustrious professional career and devoted it to the study of the life sciences, first as a Fulbright-Hays Senior Research Scholar at the Zoological Laboratory of the Biological Center of the University of Groningen, Holland (1977-78) and then as a Fellow of the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences at Wassenaar, Holland (1978-79). From that point on, while he continued to contribute to the field of judicial behavior, his research and publications increasingly focused on the relation between the life sciences and politics broadly, beginning with "Cooperation, Cognition, and Communication," Behavioral and Brain Sciences (December 1978) and "Ethology: A Primer for Political Scientists," Center for Biopolitical Research Notes (January 1979) and continuing with the numerous articles. His major books in the field were Evolutionary Politics (1989), Primate Politics (1991), and Research in Biopolitics, Vol. 5 (1997), co-edited with his son, James Schubert, and Steven Peterson. Glendon Schubert received a Lifetime Career Achievement Award in 1994 from the Association of Politics and Life Sciences.
Glendon Schubert had five children, one of whom, James, was a highly-regarded political scientist in his own right who died of a brain tumor shortly before Glendon, on September 5, 2005. Schubert is survived by his sister, Dolores Nabkel; his children Frank, Susan, Kathleen and Robin; and his widow, Natalie Klavans.
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ROBERT B. STAUFFER. Died April 20, 2006 at 85. He was born in Pennsylvania. Emeritus Professor of Political Science; BS 1942, Penn State; MA 1947, Oklahoma; PhD 1954, Minnesota.
JES STOLLBERG, 51, of Honolulu, died Sept. 29, 2005.. Born in California. An associate professor at the University of Hawai'i-Manoa. Survived by wife, Kathrine; daughter, Jemma Jay; mother, Noreen; brother, Bill; sisters, Sue Anderson and Tonna Kutner.
SACHIKO TAKESHITA, 74, of Honolulu, died Nov. 13, 2005. Born in Yamaguchi-Ken, Japan. Retired instructor of Japanese at the University of Hawai'i-Manoa. Survived by son, Wayne. Honolulu Advertiser, November 21, 2005
HELEN A. TOPHAM, 93, of Honolulu, died Feb. 12, 2007. Born in Wildwood, N.J. Retired assistant professor of English at the University of Hawai'i; appeared in university plays and community theaters. Survived by cousin, Elaine Thomas and family. Honolulu Advertiser, March 1, 2007
JOHN A. THOMPSON, Prof. Emer. and Chair of Educational Administration, died Aug. 12, 2006. He joined the College of Education in 1970 and served there until retirement in 1995. While in Manoa, Thompson also served as president of UHPA and was instrumental in developing his College's PhD program. He also served as chairman of the NEA Higher Education Council and was appointed by the Governor to serve as a commisioner to the Education Commission of the States.
ANTHONY LONG DUC TRUONG, 51, of Honolulu, died Oct. 5, 2004. Born in Hanoi, Vietnam. An economics professor at Leeward Community College and Chaminade University. Survived by wife, Catherine Lan Tran; son, Justin; brothers, Father Joseph Ky, Anthony Chieu and Joseph Minh; sisters, Lily Loan and Ann Hoang.