• Obituaries of Notable People in the Education Category



  • Donald A. Parham, 78 (1930 - 2008)

    Donald A. Parham

    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)

    Thomas K. Hearn, Jr.

    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

    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

    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

    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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