Two University memorial services are planned. She was awarded a Certificate of Clinical Competence in Speech from the American Speech and Hearing Association in 1955 and became a Licensed Psychologist in California in 1959. in 1966 from the State University of New York at Buffalo. Honorably discharged in 1946 with the rank of staff sergeant, he enrolled at USC and completed a Bachelor of Arts degree, after which he worked briefly as a tool designer for a camera repair company and then, also briefly, returned to Lockheed in the same capacity. He later earned three degrees at the University of Southern California: M.S. from what was then Los Angeles State College in 1951 and 1957, respectively. Mac then began his life as a consummate potter, painter, sculptor, writer, and poet. Herb's checklists of North American Indian Languages and South and Central American Indian Languages, amounting to more than 350 pages, appeared in Current Trends in Linguistics and were revised for Native Languages of the Americas . After that experience, he told those attending his Cal State L.A. retirement party, "music became my sole extra-curricular strength." He began teaching at CSLA in 1958. His family hosted a very secular memorial gathering, with stories, laughter and his favorite foods, barbecued ribs and cinnamon rolls, at the Veterans Club in Eugene.The Emeritimes, Spring 2015, JANE SANFORD LEWIS, Emerita Professor of Family Studies and Consumer Sciences, 1968-1991, died from pneumonia on February 4, 2015, at the age of 96, surrounded by her daughters. He was 71 years old, and had suffered from Parkinson's disease for many years. She was also one of two department members who advised each and every student major in the conversion of the semester system to quarter units. Over the years, she was awarded more than 20 honorary doctorates, as well as a Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Academy of Sciences, among numerous other honors. Sociology Department chair Steven Gordon, who knew Terry first as his Cal State L.A. class instructor and later as faculty peer, recalls, Among my department colleagues over the decades, Terry may be the one who most expressed a zealous and unflagging enjoyment of the sociological life of the mind. Cheryl Miller, (born January 3, 1964, Riverside, California, U.S.), American basketball player and coach who was one of the greatest players in the history of women's basketball. from Queens College in 1954, followed by an A.M. in 1957 and a Ph.D. in 1962 from Columbia University. Following his B.A. She especially did a magnificent job as program chair for the fall musicales. Born in Chicago on July 8, 1918 to Leonard and Ida (Laue) Mathy, Len completed his freshman year at Valparaiso University in Indiana before transferring to the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, where he earned a B.A. During the winter of 1955, he returned to Berkeley, where he re-encountered Marjorie, who had entered a Berkeley graduate program the previous fall. Pete was born in the Bronx, New York on March 17, 1933. She also received national honors in hearing and speech and a California State award for hearing and speech. degrees in psychology at Cal State L.A., in1967 and 1968, respectively. Ray was from Oklahoma and returned there to continue with his education after serving in the Marine Corps in Korea. His specialization was Spanish-American literature, particularly the 20th century novel, short story, and theater. His collaborator for two additional books was Eugene P. Dvorin, who said that they wrote together with Simmons sitting at the typewriter and Dvorin pacing the room, Simmons writing and weaving together Dvorin's sentences, adding and subtracting to make a coherent text. Following her relocation to California in the late 1950s, May worked as an occupational therapist at Rancho Los Amigos Hospital in Downey, earning an M.A. But the 2001 crash, when Don was 85 and Kathleen 83, became the terminator for such travel. Recently he had served as Director of the Center for Criminal Justice Studies and continued to be involved in this area up to the time of his death. Funeral services were held at the San Gabriel Mission Church, where she was an active communicant. She earned her diploma in nursing in 1962. But that was also Toms strength as a philosophergiving careful and thorough attention to positions he thought were important. Both faculty colleagues and students appreciated his dry sense of humor, remembers colleague Ann Garry. He recruited a dedicated faculty member, Richard Roberto, to be the faculty sponsor, and the car was engineered by a team of students under his and other faculty and staff guidance. magna cum laude from Tufts University in 1961 and his M.A. In 1936, at the age of 23, he left Sweden for the United States. He retired 20 years later with the rank of professor. and USC (Ed.D. His wife Millie died in 1980, and he married Barbara in 1982. Several thousand mobile power devices with the trade name AuraGen, based on one of his patents, have been installed in commercial and military vehicles. He served on numerous university committees and had four scholarly publications. The University has a music scholarship set up in her name.The Emeritimes, Spring 2006, S. BARRY MCGEE, SR., Professor of Theatre Arts, 1972-1980 died December 20, 2005 just four days after his 91stbirthday. In the West Hollywood community Lester was a long-time civic leader, active in the successful campaign for its incorporation as a city, and he served on the City Council for several years. She then returned to her home town, Newburgh, and married Peter Barclay. Concurrently with his faculty service, Dick served as a clinical psychologist in the Naval Reserve, where he became a lieutenant commander. He graduated from Dorsey High School and Caltech. She had had surgery for colon cancer, but complications that followed defeated her efforts to survive. He returned to teaching in 1972, and retired from the faculty in 1977. Calvin spoke at Lloyd's retirement celebration at Cal State L.A. in 1986. His contributions helped to create the overall success and strength of the option. She was a Cal State LA staff member for 40 years, most of which she spent in the Office of the Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs. He was a member and past president of the Friends of the Library Board of Directors. He earned many accolades during his long career. He also enjoyed occasional roles as an attorney in television court programs. She participated on department and school committees. John and his wife Ruth, who, with their son James John, became longtime residents of Monterey Park, were active members of the local and University communities. (Photo caption l. to r.: Early Emeriti Association presidents Sid Albert, Alice Thompson, Gene Tipton, Mike Grisafe, Don Mortensen)The Emeritimes, Winter 2003, ALYCE S. ROBINSON, Education Librarian, 1958-1972, died last August 2002 after a brief illness. Born in a sod house on the North Dakota prairie, Bill had a rich and varied life. Both Al and Fleur completed physics doctoral programs at the University of Rochester. He is survived by son Paul and his wife, daughter Diana and her husband, son Jeffrey, five grandchildren, and sisters Frances and Pearl.The Emeritimes, Winter 2017, ROBERT R. FIEDLER, Emeritus Professor of Art, 1961-1997, died peacefully in Milwaukee on December 8, 2015 at the age of 84. He very quickly acquired a world-wide reputation in his field by dint of his many lectures and published articles, as well as several books. In high school, he was the valedictorian and a varsity track star. A memorial service was held on January 14, 2017 at the Veterans Memorial Building in Culver City.The Emeritimes, Spring 2017, ROBERT C. HOWARD, Emeritus Professor of Electrical Engineering, 1986-1996, died peacefully on November 9, 2016 at age 93. After service in army intelligence from 1942 to 1946, he began his long teaching career at Pasadena City College. He is survived by them as well as his son-in-law Todd Phelps, grandsons Clayton and Clark Phelps, and his devoted wife Patricia, who has called him a blazing star. He made an outstanding contribution to his department and to the School of Business and Economics through his service as the department's principal academic adviser, but his influence and standards in this area extended well beyond his department. Later in his career, his book, Robert Nathan , was published in1969, and his papers included articles on Muriel Spark and Henry Adams. Beyond his work on campus, Hershel was profoundly committed to a variety of community advocacy programs. His style of teaching was to challenge his students to think, and to gain confidence in forming and defending their interpretations of literature both in class discussions and in their written essays. For years, she sold tickets for the Mutual Theatre Ticket Agency, which enabled her to attend plays and concerts at the Hollywood Bowl and other Los Angeles venues, fostering a love of all kinds of music. But his favorite was Hawaii, where he and Wanda would spend hours snorkeling and watching Hawaiian sunsets with glasses of champagne. The Emeritimes, Winter 1990, JAMES J. STANSELL, Professor Emeritus of Speech Communication, died of a massive cardiac arrest on January 8, 1990. His model was adopted throughout the country; he is viewed as the father of minority engineering programs in the United States. Burt joined the School of Education faculty in 1952 and retired in 1979. He served as dean for a 16-year period, from 1985 to 2001, and has been recognized for his innovative administrative leadership and numerous accomplishments during his career. Her undergraduate education at the University of Washington was interrupted by World War II. In 1991, he left to become president of the University of Northern Colorado. Bless Me, Ultima was performed over two weekends to spectacular success, with standing ovation to all actors and director, and added applause on Lous behalf for playing the role of the notorious villain Tenorio Trementina so persuasively. His dissertation is the first theoretical attempt to analyze in detail the initial four years of the Chicano movement in a specific urban location, and from the perspective of a direct participant in L.A. politics and Chicano community initiatives. After her retirement, she was inducted into the Cal State L.A. Frank took on administrative duties at various times and actively participated in the governance activities of the University. in 1949, and during that time taught in elementary school. Notably, she served as chair of the Cal State LA Academic Senate from 1996 to 1998 and was a member of the CSU Academic Senate for more than 10 years, serving on the executive committee for three of those years. A specialist in obstetric and gynecological nursing, Miriam's leadership in the nursing department was evident in her development of a senior-elective option in health care for women. Retirement seemed to spur his activity in re-search, writing, and public speaking, all of which culminated in several books and a number of papers. The highlight of these vacations may indeed have been the two trips he made to golf at St. Andrews in Scotland. He was an accomplished man who lived a full life. in Chemistry with first class honors in 1933, an M.Sc.in 1936, and a Ph.D. in 1939, all from Cairo University. Interests and Policies in the 21st Century Middle East, appeared in the military magazine, The Officer, in June 2004. Lou immediately turned his sole attention to teaching, department politics, and his ongoing doctoral studies. George also contributed to the University community through numerous extracurricular activities. He was a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the American Institute of Certified Cost Accountants. At LACC, he designed Way of the World , which won the first American College Theatre Festival and thereafter was performed at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. During his active career backstage in Southern California, he designed lighting for operas at the Hollywood Bowl, the old Biltmore Theatre and the old Philharmonic Auditorium, and for plays at the Ivar and Las Palmas theatres. He was a long-time member of the Lions Club and the Masonic Lodge. Paul is best recalled for his sense of humor, love for reading, and passion for chess. in 1964. In July 1959 Rolling accepted a position at Los Angeles State College. They were married in 1940. It was a wonderful event and I have been interested in everything Asian since. He was one of the architects of the Spanish M.A. -- by Howard P. Holladay.The Emeritimes, Spring 1995, BEN C. GMUR (Health and Safety Studies, 1956-1983), died January 21, 1995 after a short illness. Born in Minneapolis, he moved with his family to Los Angeles in 1922.