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September 18, 2000
Gary Bird The University has received word of the death of Gary Bird, assistant professor of music, who died Sept. 12 in Courbevoie, France. He was 49. Bird came to the U-M in 1994 from East Carolina University where he headed a degree program in musical theater in 1991–94. He also taught at Utah State…
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September 5, 2000
Nathan B. Gross Nathan B. Gross, professor emeritus of physiological psychology, otolaryngology, and also of the Kresge Hearing Research Institute, died at University Hospital July 3, one day after a heart attack. Born March 16, 1916, in Buffalo, N.Y., he took his B.A. in biology at the University of Chicago and his Ph.D. at the…
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August 14, 2000
Michael Aldrich Michael S. Aldrich, professor of neurology and founder of the U-M Sleep Disorder Laboratory, died July 18 at his home in Ann Arbor after a long fight against osteosarcoma. He was 51. Known internationally for his work on narcolepsy, Aldrich was considered a pioneer neurologist in the relatively young field of sleep medicine.…
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July 17, 2000
Sheridan Baker Sheridan Baker, educator and author, passed away at St. Joseph’s Mercy Hospital June 30 after a short illness. In World War II, he served more than six years with the U.S. Navy on destroyers in both the Atlantic and Pacific theatres, attaining the rank of Lt. Commander. He received his B.A. and advanced…
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July 3, 2000
David Goldberg David Goldberg, a distinguished professor of the University, died of cancer June 13 at his home in Ann Arbor. Goldberg, the son of Russian immigrants, spent some of his undergraduate years in Ann Arbor studying history, but earned his bachelor’s degree from Wayne State University. He came to the U-M in 1952 to…
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June 19, 2000
Heleen W.A.M. Sancisi-Weerdenburg Heleen W.A.M. Sancisi-Weerdenburg died at the age of 56 in Utrecht, the Netherlands, on May 26, after a courageous battle against cancer. Sancisi-Weerdenburg held the Netherlands Visiting Professorship at the University in 1989–90 in the Departments of History and Near Eastern Studies. Building upon the extensive bonds she forged in her year…
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June 5, 2000
Harold Haugh Harold Haugh, professor emeritus of music, died May 24 in Ann Arbor at the age of 94. The Cleveland native joined the U-M faculty in 1948 and continued as a voice teacher until his retirement in 1976. A tenor who started his musical career as a youngster singing in the church where his…
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May 22, 2000
Dusan Baic Dusan Baic, associate professor emeritus of biological sciences, died of cancer May 5 in Georgia. He retired in 1986 after being with the University 18 years. Baic held a B.S. from Realna Ginmzaija, Slav, Pozega and an M.D. from the University of Zagreb, where he served as assistant professor in 1953–61. After immigrating…
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May 8, 2000
Stuart Sankey The School of Music is saddened to announce the loss of Prof. Stuart Sankey, a seminal force in the world of the classical double bass. Sankey died May 1 in Ann Arbor after a determined struggle against, and complications from, myelofibrosis, a bone marrow disease. Sankey was born in Los Angeles, Calif., in…
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April 24, 2000
John Arthos John Arthos, professor emeritus of English, died April 11. He was 92. Arthos was a Russel Lecturer and the Hereward T. Price Distinguished University Professor of English. In adopting his retirement memoir in 1979, the Regents noted that Arthos’ “many books and articles range over several periods of English, American and continental literature.…
