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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 19, 2000
Editor’s Note: The following actions were taken by the Regents at their June meeting. By Wono LeeNews and Information Services Administrative appointments Administrative appointments approved by the Regents included: Frederick R. Amrine, the Arthur F. Thurnau Professor and associate professor of Germanic languages and literatures, was reappointed chair of the Department of Germanic Languages and…
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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 22, 2000
By Rebecca A. Doyle Rape charge under investigation Department of Public Safety (DPS) officers are investigating a report that a female student was sexually assaulted by a male acquaintance on April 18. The woman, a resident of West Quadrangle Residence Hall, reported that she had met the man earlier in the evening at a bar.…
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May 22, 2000
Editor’s Note: The following actions were taken by the Regents at their May meeting. By Wono LeeNews and Information Services Appointments with tenure Tenured faculty appointments approved by the Regents included: Robert Fishman, of Rutgers University, will be professor of architecture, effective July 1. Mary N. Haan, of the University of California, Davis, will be…
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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.…
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April 24, 2000
Editor’s Note: The following actions were taken by the Regents at their April meeting. By Wono LeeNews and Information Services Appointments to professorships Faculty appointments to endowed and named professorships that were approved by the Regents include: Robert Jon Feigal, professor of dentistry, will hold the Samuel D. Harris Collegiate Professorship of Dentistry, effective April…
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April 17, 2000
Eleanor S. Collins On the evening of April 5, Eleanor S. Collins, the first appointed curator of the Slide and Photograph Collection at the Department of the History of Art, died peacefully after a brief illness. She had recently celebrated her 92nd birthday with family and friends whom she cherished and whose lives she greatly…
