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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 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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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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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 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 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…
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October 15, 1997
The University Record, October 15, 1997 By Rebecca A. Doyle Amnesia sufferer is really con artist Early in September, the Department of Public Safety (DPS) asked for help from the University community in identifying a white male, 6 feet, 4 inches tall weighing 195 pounds who had presented himself at University Hospital with no identification…
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September 24, 1997
The University Record, September 24, 1997 Najaf Gholizadeh Gangei Najaf Gholizadeh Gangei, health science research associate at the Kresge Hearing Research Institute, died Aug. 19 from pancreatic cancer. Born in Tabriz, Iran, on Dec. 31, 1929, he received his medical degree from the University of Tehran and completed a four-year residency in ophthalmology there, followed…
