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December 10, 1997
The University Record, December 10, 1997 Editor’s Note: The following actions were taken by the Regents at their November meeting. Two faculty members receive named collegiate professorships Peter J. Polverini and Thomas R. Trautmann were appointed to named collegiate professorships. Polverini, professor of dentistry and of pathology, also will hold the Donald A. Kerr Professorship…
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December 10, 1997
The University Record, December 10, 1997 Jonathan King Jonathan King, U-M professor emeritus of architecture and recently retired visiting professor at Texas A&M University College of Architecture, died of cancer Nov. 19 in Houston. He was 71. King was perhaps best known for his work in building systems that changed the shape of American schoolhouses.…
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November 19, 1997
The University Record, November 19, 1997 By Rebecca A. Doyle Tempers flare, so does hair During the Sept. 27 football game against Notre Dame, an argument between a man and a woman escalated to a violent incident. The man took out his cigarette lighter and set the woman’s hair on fire. Her husband, who was…
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November 19, 1997
The University Record, November 19, 1997 John A.M. Lyon John A.M. Lyon, professor emeritus of electrical engineering and computer science, died Nov. 11 after a month-long illness. He was 85. Lyon attended Wayne State University and the U-M, from which he held four degrees, a B.S.E. in electrical engineering and in mathematics and an M.S.…
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November 12, 1997
> Audrey T. Boseman Audrey T. Boseman died Oct. 20 after a long struggle with cancer. Boseman joined the business office at the Institute for Social Research in 1953 and was named business manager in April 1971. She retired last March. Family and colleagues note that Boseman ³had a great flair and love for simple…
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November 5, 1997
The University Record, November 5, 1997 Editor’s Note: The following actions were taken by the Regents at their October meeting. Other actions were reported in the Oct. 29 issue of the Record. $14 million in private gifts accepted The Regents accepted $14,601,556 in gifts received in September. The total included $10,402,985 from individuals, $1,430,345 from…
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November 5, 1997
The University Record, November 5, 1997 Anneke de Bruyn Overseth Anneke De Bruyn Overseth died Oct. 29 of pancreatic cancer. She was 63. Born in Amsterdam, Overseth moved to the United States in 1941, where her late father, Peter, was a professor of anatomy at the University of Chicago. As a young child, she won…
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October 29, 1997
The University Record, October 29, 1997 Editor’s Note: The following actions were taken by the Regents at their October meeting. Two appointed to named collegiate professorships Two faculty members were appointed to named collegiate professorships. Phoebe C. Ellsworth, the Kirkland and Ellis Professor of Law in the Law School and professor of psychology, also will…
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October 29, 1997
The University Record, October 29, 1997 Alexander Makarewich Alexander J. Makarewich, financial manager in the Financial Operations office, died Oct. 19 in Bloomington, Ind., of a possible heart attack. He was 58. Makarewich was born May 12, 1939, in Highland Park. He earned a B.A. in accounting from Eastern Michigan University in 1962, served with…
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October 15, 1997
The University Record, October 15, 1997 Obituaries Roy A. Rappaport Roy A. Rappaport, professor of anthropology and director of the University¹s Program on Studies in Religion, died Oct. 9 at his home of cancer. He was 71. Rappaport was an internationally respected scholar, and devoted most of his work to the study of religion, in…
