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Donald A. Parham, 78 (1930 - 2008)
DURANT, Okla. -Donald A. Parham, who spent almost a half-century at Southeastern Oklahoma State University as a student, coach, professor or administrator, has died. He was 78. Parham died Friday in a Dallas hospital, university officials said. They did not reveal the cause of death. Parham was considered to be one of the most influential figures in Oklahoma small-college...
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Thomas K. Hearn, Jr., 71 (1937 - 2008)
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. - Thomas K. Hearn Jr., president of Wake Forest University from 1983 until 2005, has died. He was 71. Hearn died Monday, the school announced. He suffered from brain cancer while serving as president in 2003, was eventually declared cancer-free. He returned to the job a few months later, but announced that he planned to retire in June 2005. During his presidency, Wake...
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Randy Pausch, 47 (1960 - 2008)
Randy Pausch, a Carnegie Mellon University computer scientist whose "last lecture" about facing terminal cancer became an Internet sensation and a best-selling book, died Friday. He was 47. Visit Carnegie-Mellon University's remembrance to Dr. Pausch: http://www.cmu.edu/index.shtml. Pausch died at his home in Virginia, university spokeswoman Anne Watzman said. Pausch and his family...
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John Y. Simon, 75 (1933 - 2008)
John Y. Simon, one of the nation's foremost scholars on President Grant and the Civil War, died Tuesday. He was 75. Simon died at a Carbondale hospital, said a Huffman-Harker Funeral Home spokesman. The award-winning historian spent more than four decades at Southern Illinois University and led the Ulysses S. Grant Association, which is based at the Carbondale school, since 1962. A...
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Vincent Malham (2008)
Vincent Malham, president of Christian Brothers University, died Friday in a car crash in Louisiana. He was 73. Malham was driving near Clayton when he collided head-on with a pickup, according to a release from the university. The driver and passenger in the pickup were not seriously injured. Malham became the Catholic university's president in 2005 after serving as president of Bethlehem...
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Joe C. Jackson (2008)
Joe C. Jackson, a historian and former administrator at the University of Central Oklahoma, died Monday. He was 97. The school confirmed his death, which was due to natural causes. Jackson...
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John W.F. Dulles (2008)
John W.F. Dulles, professor of Latin American studies at the University of Texas and the eldest son of the former secretary of state, died June 23. He was 95. Dulles was preparing for the fall...
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William B. Stallcup, Jr (2008)
DALLAS - William B. Stallcup Jr., the interim president of Southern Methodist University in the aftermath of the 1980s football scandal, died Saturday. He was 87. Stallcup died following a long...
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Irving Rosenthal (2008)
Irving Rosenthal, who taught journalism at the City College of New York for 40 years and became a mentor to some of the country's top reporters, has died. He was 95. Rosenthal died Sunday at his...
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Robert F. Goheen (2008)
Robert F. Goheen, who led Princeton University during the 1960s, a time of rapid turbulent change for the college and the world, died Monday. He was 88. Goheen died of heart failure at the...
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Erica Jesselson, 86 (1922 - 2008)
Erica Jesselson, a benefactor of Jewish education and the arts in the United States and Israel who supported major institutions including Yeshiva University and the Israel Philharmonic, died...
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Frederick Seitz, 96 (1911 - 2008)
Frederick Seitz, a former president of both the National Academy of Sciences and Rockefeller University and an outspoken skeptic on global warming, died Sunday. He was 96. Seitz died in...
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Ray Wu (2008)
Ray Wu, a Cornell University professor widely recognized as one of the fathers of genetic engineering, died Sunday of cardiac arrest, the university said. He was 79. Wu, a professor of...
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Jules d'Hemecourt IV (2008)
Jules d'Hemecourt IV, a retired Louisiana State University journalism professor and the voice behind the recording "The 12 Cajun Days of Christmas," died Thursday. He was 64. Jim Engster,...
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Harry Philpott (2008)
Former Auburn University President Harry M. Philpott, who guided the university through more than 14 years of growth and influenced public education throughout the state, died Monday. He was 90. ...
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Albert Bowker (2008)
Albert Bowker, a former chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley, and the City University of New York, died Sunday of pancreatic cancer, the colleges announced. He was 88. Bowker...
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Emory Sekaquaptewa (2007)
Emory Sekaquaptewa, a university professor, anthropologist, judge, artist and the "Noah Webster of the Hopi Nation," died Dec. 14. He was 79. Tribal officials confirmed the death. The location...
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Elspeth Rostow, 90 (1917 - 2007)
Elspeth Rostow, former dean of the University of Texas LBJ School of Public Affairs and a former presidential adviser, has died of a heart attack. She was 90. Rostow, who died at home Sunday,...
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Richard Ewing (2007)
Richard Ewing, a Texas A&M University vice president who resigned this summer as head of the school's troubled biodefense research program, died Wednesday of a heart attack. He was 61. ...
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Reynaldo P. Glover (2007)
P. Glover, chairman of the Fisk University board of trustees, has died. He was 64. Glover died Tuesday of pancreatic cancer, the school announced. He had served as chairman of the historically...
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Philip Alphonsus Smith (2007)
The Rev. Philip Alphonsus Smith, who served as president of Providence College for more than a decade, has died. He was 74. Smith died Sunday at Rhode Island Hospital, the college announced....
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Donald R. Matthews (2007)
Donald R. Matthews, a University of Washington political science professor who wrote a landmark text on the Senate, has died. He was 82. Matthews died Saturday at Swedish Medical Center...
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Norman Lewis (2006)
Norman Lewis, who wrote or edited more than 60 books on language and grammar, including the best-selling "30 Days to a More Powerful Vocabulary" and "Word Power Made Easy," has died. He was 93. ...
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Andrea Dworkin, 58 (1946 - 2005)
Andrea Dworkin wrote openly about the experiences as a prostitute, rape victim and battered wife that led her to become a crusader against pornography and violence against women--and a lightning...
