Sports
Dunstan Anderson - Football player who played in the NFL with the Miami Dolphins in 1997, who had played Arena Football for the last four years and was currently playing for Florida Firecats, including their opening game on May 29, was killed in a car accident in Fort Myers, Florida on May 31 at the age of 33.
Gary Ballman - NFL halfback and receiver for the Steelers, Eagles, Giants and Vikings, who is among Pittsburgh's all time career leaders in kickoff returns (64 returns for 1,711 yards) and average yardage on a kick return at 26.7, whose 93-yard return against the Washington Redskins on Nov. 17, 1963, is tied for seventh-longest in Steeler's history, and who went to the Pro Bowl in 1965 and 1966, died May 20 at his home in Aurora, Colorado while mowing the lawn (cause of death not reported) at the age of 63.
Knut Blin - German boxer and son of boxing great Juergen Blin, who turned pro in the 1980's amid high expectations and was one of the first fighters signed to Universum, but who never lived up to the potential, suffering bouts of depression, committed suicide recently at age 36 (help with date and place is appreciated).
Larry Capune - Legendary long-distance paddleboarder who made aquatic history by paddleboarding 16,063 miles along the nation's coastlines during eight solo paddling trips, and whose longest trip was a 4,255 mile trek from Portland, Maine to Corpus Christi, Texas, died May 25 of cancer in Newport Beach, California at the age of 61.
Magne Havnaa - World championship boxer who won the WBO cruiserweight title in 1990, beating American Richard Pultz, and who was one of the most acclaimed boxers in Norway's history, was killed in a boating accident May 29 off the coast of Risoer, Norway. He was 40 years old.
Josh Hill - Member of the Yale University men's basketball team, known for his spirit and determination and hailed as the team's inspirational leader, who was a first team All-State selection for his junior and senior years of high school, was killed in a car accident on May 27 near Atlantic City, New Jersey. He was 22 years old.
Mike Fogolin - Minor league hockey player with the Prince George Cougars of the Western Hockey League, who was the son of former Edmonton Oiler great Lee Fogolin, died in his sleep on May 26 at the age of 17. The cause of death was not known.
Torsten Johansson - Swedish tennis star who set a record by shutting out two opponents at Wimbledon in 1946, and who played Davis Cup tennis until his retirement in 1962, died May 14 in Stockholm, Sweden at the age of 84.
Viola Cady Krahn - Diver and swimmer whose career spanned nearly 85 years, winning 17 Master world diving titles, who was inducted into the International Masters Swimming Hall of Fame in January 2004, who participated in her last competition at the age of 101 (!), and who said the secret of her success was to "outlive your competitors", died in Orange, California on June 1 at age 102 as the result of a stroke suffered several months previous.
Jack Losch - All-American linebacker at the University of Miami during the 1950's, who holds the team record for the longest run from scrimmage, 90 yards, in a 1955 game against Bucknell, who played one season in the NFL with the Green Bay Packers, and who was the center fielder on the first Little League Baseball World Series championship team in 1947, died May 27 in Williamsport, Pennsylvania after a short illness at the age of 69.
Irina Press - Soviet-era athlete who won gold medals at the Olympic games in 1960 in the hurdles and again in 1964 in the pentathlon, setting an Olympic records in those events, whose gender (and that of her sister Tamara) were questioned by journalists who suspected them of being men taking hormone injections (they were dubbed the 'Press brothers' by journalists), and who withdrew from all further competition after chromosome testing was introduced in 1966, died Feb. 21 in the Ukraine at the age of 63.
Doyle Smith - Legendary name in college lacrosse, who served as the executive secretary of the U.S. Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association and was a member of the National Lacrosse Hall of Fame, and who also served as the associate sports information direction at the University of Virginia, died after a long battle with Parkinson's disease on June 1 at his home in Charlottesville, Virginia at the age of 60.

Art and Literature
Lionel Abrahams - Poet and author who published six volumes by short-story teller Charles Herman Bosman and wrote four volumes of poetry and two autobiographical novels "The Celibacy of Felix Greenspan" and its sequel, "The White Life of Felix", and who was a literary mentor for many aspiring writers, died on May 31 in Johannesburg, South Africa at age 75 as the result of kidney failure.
Judith Cook - Journalist and prolific writer of books ranging from crime novels to biographies to investigative works, who was an early and powerful campaigner against nuclear weapons and wrote two books on the mysterious death of the anti-nuclear campaigner Hilda Murrell, and whose latest crime novel, "Keeper's Gold", is scheduled to be published later this year, died of a stroke on May 12 in Cornwall, England at the age of 70.
Andrew Green - Noted Paranormal investigator, and free-lance secular exorcist who formed the Ealing Society for Investigation of Psychic Phenomena in 1950, who co-founded the Lewisham Psychic Research Society and the National Federation of Psychic Research Societies, who wrote books such as "Ghost Hunting: A Practical Guide", who was plucked out of obscurity to investigate reports of paranormal sightings at the Royal Albert Hall, and who, earlier in 2004 investigated a ghost sighting at rock-star Robbie Williams' £7 million mock castle called Whithurst Hall in East Sussex, died May 21 at a hospital in Hastings, UK following a battle with cancer and lung disease at the age of 76.
Norman Griner - Graphics designer who made the record album cover a canvas for metaphor and realism and won a Grammy for the cover art on the Thelonious Monk album "Underground" in 1968 (which portrayed Monk as an armed World War II partisan, seated at the piano in a room cluttered with grenades, wine bottles and even a cow, with a Nazi officer tied to a chair in the background), and who later brought his skills to memorable print advertisements and television commercials, such as the commercial that featured people from around the world singing "I'd Like to Buy the World a Coke" in an open field, died in Carmel, New York, on April 17 of after a cerebral hemorrhage. He was 71.
Jane Gyer - Artist of watercolors, acrylics and etchings that depict spectacular nature settings, best known for her striking illustrations of Yosemite, where she lived for 50 years, who served as "Artist in the Park" for Yosemite and Rocky Mountain National Parks and twice received the National Parks Service Directors Award, died in Oakhurst, California on June 1 at the age of 78.
Liu Kang - Painter and pioneer of the Singapore arts scene, who enjoyed a 70-year career as an artist and teacher and was awarded the Meritorious Service Medal in 1996 for his contributions to visual art in Singapore, and whose collection of art, containing more than 1,000 pieces and valued at more than $18 million, was recently donated to the Singapore Arts Museum, died of kidney failure on June 1 at the age of 95.
William Manchester - Famed author and historian known for his readable biographies and his relationship with the Kennedy family, who penned best-selling biographies of Winston Churchill and Douglas MacArthur along with several historical books, who befriended JFK in the 1950's, becoming his companion and confidant, which provided him with the material for "Portrait of a President", the first of three books he wrote about the late president, died June 1 at his home in Middletown, Connecticut from the effects of two recent strokes. He was 82.
Luciano Minguzzi - Italian painter and sculptor, whose works are on display at a large number of museums in Italy and around the world, who is most famous for his works on display at Saint Peter's Cathedral in the Vatican, died May 30 in Milan at the age of 93.
Dom Moraes - One of India's leading literary figures, an author, poet and journalist who published nearly 30 books, including a biography of the former Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, and edited magazines in London, Hong Kong, and New York, who was also the first non-English and youngest writer to win the prestigious Hawthornden Prize for imaginative literature, died of a heart attack on June 2 in Bombay, India at the age of 66.
Simon Nathan - Photographer and writer known for keeping professionals and hobbyists up-to-date with the innovations of camera makers in his "Simon Sez" column that appeared in popular photography magazines after World War II, and whose panoramic techniques were used in 9 James Bond films, died May 19 in a nursing home in New York City at the age of 82.
Sheldon Oberman - Award-winning author who wrote children's books dealing with Jewish culture, who traveled extensively throughout North America as a story-teller to children, whose books include "The Always Prayer Shawl", "By the Hanukkah Light" and "The White Stone in the Castle Wall", died in Winnepeg on March 26 at the age of 54 after a long battle with gastric cancer.
Kamala Purnaiya - Novelist who wrote under the pseudonym of Kamala Markandaya and helped forge the image of India for American readers with her writings, including her best known book "Nectar in a Sieve", which was the main selection in "Book-of-the-Month" in March 1955, died May 16 in London of kidney failure at the age of 79.
James Rice - Children's author and illustrator of more than 60 books, who has a total of more than one million books in print (which ranks him with top children's authors nationally), including the well-known "A Cajun Night Before Christmas" and books in the popular Penguin Publishing's "Night Before Christmas" series, died May 30 at the age of 70 in Hico, Texas.
Henry Ries - German-born photographer who fled Hitler and returned after World War II to take pictures of postwar Germany for the New York Times, shooting memorable images of the Berlin airlift in 1948 and 1949, one of which, showing an incoming airplane over a Berlin airport being watched by children on a hillside, was featured on a commemorative postage stamp in 1998, died on May 24 in Ghent, New York at the age of 86.
Maxime Rodinson - French historian and Marxist scholar who wrote a series of internationally-acclaimed books on Islam and the Arab world from a Marxist perspective, and was best known for his 1961 biography of the prophet Muhammad, called "Muhammad", and the follow-up "Islam and capitalism," died the week of May 25 in Marseille, France at the age of 89.
Roger W. Straus - Opinionated book publisher who presided over his publishing company, Farrar, Straus & Giroux for nearly six decades, a company best known for emphasizing literary quality over commercial success, who disparaged corporate influence saying he didn't want his company to become "a division of Kleenex, or whatever," and who published many award-winning authors-including Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winners, died May 25 in New York after a battle with pneumonia at the age of 87.
Amos Wallace - Tlingit master carver who carved totem poles for museums all over the United States, who in 1958 carved a 14-foot pole with a Northwest Coast-style Statue of Liberty at the top, and later that year was interviewed by Jack Paar on "The Tonight Show", making him the "first national television Tlingit star", who went on to carve poles for Disneyland and for Oregon's centennial, among others, died May 27 at a hospital in Juneau, Alaska, while recuperating from a broken hip. He was 83.

Politics and Military
Carlo Cirillo - Italian politician who was running for city council in Pompeii (yes, that Pompeii), who went missing on May 24 under suspicious circumstances, was found beheaded beside a road near town (his head has not been located) on May 26. He was 43 years old and the Camorra crime family is suspected in the death. Officials are trying to suspend the upcoming election.
Stan Clark - Kansas state senator and a leader among that state's conservative Republicans, who was chairman of the Utilities Committee and served on the Assessment and Taxation Committee, was killed on May 31 when his car was crushed between two semi-trailers near Oakley, Kansas during a tornado. He was 49 years old.
Archibald Cox - Watergate special prosecutor who demanded that President Nixon turn over his secretly recorded White House tapes, prompting Nixon to order Cox fired in an event deemed the "Saturday Night Massacre" (so named because two top Justice Department officials resigned rather than carry out the President's order) and setting in motion a constitutional crisis that led to Nixon's resignation in the face of impeachment, who previously was United States Solicitor General under President Kennedy and a highly respected Harvard law professor, and later founded the nonpartisan citizens lobbying group, Common Cause, died of natural causes on May 29 in Brooksville, Maine (the same day as Sam Dash, chief counsel to the House Judiciary Committee during the Watergate scandal). He was 92 years old.
Glenn Cunningham - New Jersey state senator and mayor of Jersey City (that city's first black mayor) and a political maverick in the state, who in 2000 was nominated by President Bill Clinton for the position of U.S. Marshall of New Jersey, and who is one of only a few to hold two high profile government positions simultaneously, died in Jersey City at age 60 on May 25 as the result of a massive heart attack.
Samuel Dash - Legal counsel for the Watergate Committee and famous champion of legal ethics, whose even-handed interrogation revealed the secret audio taping system at the White House, who in 1957 wrote the book "The Eavesdroppers" which helped shape wiretapping laws, and who later served as ethics advisor to Kenneth Starr during the Whitewater investigations but resigned four years later as a protest of Starr's testifying before the House Judiciary Committee because he felt Starr was an "aggressive advocate" of impeachment, died of congestive heart failure in Washington, DC on May 29 at the age of 79.
Jerry Diskin - Federal prosecutor who headed the government's case against Algerian terrorist Ahmed Ressam (who attempted to enter the U.S. in 1999 with a load of explosives he intended to use to blow up L.A. International Airport), who was appointed interim U.S. attorney in 2001 by John Ashcroft, died June 1 at a hospital in Seattle from complications of surgery to remove a brain tumor. He was 57 years old.
Djerrkura - Prominent Aboriginal leader of the Wangurri clan, who was born into traditional tribal life in northern Australia and rose to lead an elected indigenous group that helped allocate government funds, becoming a respected figure in national politics while still adhering to the practices of traditional Aboriginal culture (he always kept a spear by his door to protect his family at times of tribal tensions and was responsible for a number of traditional and ceremonial activities on behalf of his clan), died of a heart attack on May 26 in his community of Arnhem Land. He was 54 years old.
Le Minh Huong - Vietnamese statesman and senior Lieutenant General who was a former Minister of Public Security and member of the Politburo of Vietnam's Communist Party, who contributed dramatically to the revolutionary cause of the Party over the past 50 years and was awarded the 1st class Anti-American War Order, died after a long illness on May 23 in Hanoi, Vietnam at the age of 68.
Toshikazu Kase - Japanese diplomat who was aboard the USS Missouri as Gen. Douglas MacArthur presided at the signing of Japan's unconditional surrender to the United States, who also was instrumental in Japan's gaining full acceptance into the United Nations in 1956 and was Japan's first ambassador to the UN, died May 21 of heart failure in Tokyo at the age of 101.
Tesfaye Gebre Kidan - Former president of Ethiopia and the country's second most wanted man, who ruled for seven days after ousted dictator Mengistu Haile Mariam fled the country in 1991 and has spent the last 13 years in hiding in the Italian embassy in Ethiopia's capital while being tried in abstenia for genocide and human rights violations during Mariam's rule, died on June 2, reportedly after being hit on the head with a bottle during a fight with another embassy resident, former foreign minister Berhanu Bayhe. He was thought to be in his late 60s.
Prentice H. Marshall - Federal judge who fought for the rights of minorities and the indigent and made rulings that changed the makeup of the Chicago police force, ordering the department to hire women as officers and offer greater opportunities for blacks and Hispanics, who presided over a widely publicized trial that sent the president of the Teamster's union to prison for conspiring to bribe a senator, and who was one of the few Democrats to be nominated for a federal judgeship by President Richard M. Nixon, died of cardiac-pulmonary failure and cancer of the bladder on May 24 in Ponce Inlet, Florida at the age of 77.
Alberta Martin - The last living widow of a Civil War veteran, who married former Confederate soldier William Jasper Martin in 1927 when she was 21 and he was 81 (she was a widowed mother living in poverty at the time), who had a child with him and later married his grandson after he died in 1931, and who became a symbol to 21st century history buffs appearing at conventions and rallies of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, died May 31 at a nursing home in Enterprise, Alabama from the effects of a heart attack a month earlier. She was 97 years old.
Catherine Dean May Bedell - First woman elected to Congress from Washington state, whose election as a Republican in 1958 was during a period when few women won elections to national office (most women were appointed to replace dead husbands), who served six terms as Congresswoman before losing to Democrat Mike McCormack in 1970, who was named by President Ronald Reagan as his special consultant on the 50 States Project in 1982, and who later produced the first Betty Crocker radio show, , died June 4 in Rancho Mirage, California of cardio-respiratory arrest at the age of 90.
Lord Lionel Murray - Leader of Britain's Trade Union Congress at the height of the its political power from 1974 to 1979 and an influential figure in that country's labor movement, whose leadership was undercut by union divisions and who saw the influence of the unions diminish following the 1979 electoral triumph of Margaret Thatcher's Conservatives, with their mandate to curb union power, died May 20 at the age of 81.
Fernando Oaxaca - Republican leader and entrepreneur who sought to open doors for Latinos in politics and business, co-founding the Republican National Hispanic Assembly and starting HispanicVista.com, a website aimed at promoting the discussion of issues related to Latinos, who also served as an advisor to Presidents Nixon, Ford, Reagan and Bush, died of cancer on May 28 in Los Angeles. He was 76 years old.
Ronald Reagan - Star of Hollywood movies from the 1930's to the 1960's in such memorable films as "Kings Row", "Knute Rockne All American" and "Bedtime for Bonzo", who went on to become the most powerful man in the free world in the 1980's as the 40th President of the United States, who led a conservative revolution in the U.S. with his election to the highest office in 1980, whose policies are widely credited with ending the Cold War with the Soviet Union, who introduced the U.S. to a conservative style of economics which were termed 'Reaganonmics', who survived an assassination attempt by John Hinckley in 1981 and went on to a landslide re-election in 1984, who had served as governor of California from 1967 to 1974, and who at age 69 became the oldest person ever to be elected U.S. president and in 2000 became the oldest surviving ex-president, passing John Adams, died June 5 at his home in Los Angeles after a 10 year battle with Alzheimer's disease. He was 93 years old.
Victor Reuther - One of the three Reuther brothers (with Walter and Roy) who led the United Auto Workers' Union during the developmental years of the labor movement who helped make the UAW the powerful force it is today, whose first role was as the union's education director and then later as the union's international director, who survived an assassination attempt in 1949 that cost him an eye, and who published his memoirs called "The Brothers Reuther" after he retired in 1972 , died as the result of renal failure and pneumonia on June 3 in Washington, DC at the age of 92.

Social and Religion
Jon Cahill - Fire department captain and father of four who embarked on a recreational climb of Mount Rainier with his partner, fell 200 feet from Liberty Ridge, one of the mountain's most dangerous passes, and died on June 3 before rescuers were able to reach him. Cahill was an experienced climber who had scaled Mt. Rainier 25 times previously, and his death came two weeks after another person perished on the same route. He was 40 years old.
Juan Delgadillo - Zany Route 66 icon who founded the famous Snow Cap Drive-In in 1953 along the famous highway in Seligman, Arizona, who was fond of silly antics like spraying mustard-looking string on customers and "Sorry, We Are Open" signs to make them feel at home up until the day he died - June 2 in Seligman at the age of 88.
David Dellinger - Peace activist and pacifist elder statesman of the famed Chicago Seven, the group of anti-Vietnam protesters charged with conspiring to incite violent riots outside the 1968 Democratic National Convention, who was known for his uncompromising and sometimes combative style, but spent his entire life as an advocate for nonviolent social change, leading hunger strikes in jail and joining civil rights freedom marches, who at the age of 85 (!) hitchhiked to Quebec City to demonstrate against the North American Free Trade Agreement, died on May 25 in Montpelier, Vermont after suffering from Alzheimer's disease. He was 88 years old.
Pierre deVise - Chicago-area sociologist best known for publishing works that outraged politicians and fellow professors, whose 1967 study "Chicago's Widening Color Gap" is considered a classic, though lambasted at the time by politicians, but proven out over time, died May 26 of cancer at his Chicago home at the age of 79.
Ricardo Espinoza, Lucero Quezada and Alexis Quezada - Brother, sister and their cousin who lived in a Baltimore apartment with their parents, undocumented workers from Mexico, who were last seen alive returning home from school on May 27, were found decapitated in their apartment by the mother of the brother and sister when she arrived home from work. Dead were brother Alexis Quezada, 9, and his sister Lucero Quezada, 10, along with their cousin Ricardo Espinosa, 9. The crime scene was described as so brutal that one or more officers could not handle it and had to leave. Relatives of the children, Policarpio Espinoza, 22, and Adan Canela, 17, have been arrested in the killings, though the motive is unclear.
Sarah Fox - Third-year drama student at Julliard in New York City, who was taking a semester off to get to know the city, who was reported missing on May 19 as she left home to jog or work out at a gym, was found dead on May 25 in a Manhattan park near her home. She was 21 and is believed to have been strangled by an unknown assailant.
Ashley Hurt - 16-month-old girl who was with her mother at a Midlothian, Illinois (a Chicago suburb) strip mall on June 3, was stabbed to death by a 26-year-old man who burst out of a Walgreen's store and began randomly stabbing people. Four people were injured in the attack, including Ashley's mother. The motives of the suspect, Brett Carlson, are unclear though he had earlier set fire to the house he shared with his mother.
Ramona Trinidad Iglesias-Jordan - The world's oldest living person and last known living person born in the 1880's, whose family worked relentlessly to document her age to the Guinness book who had mistakenly awarded the title of oldest human to American Charlotte Benkner , and who could recall a time before the Spanish-American War in 1898 when her native Puerto Rico was a Spanish colony, died May 29 of pneumonia in Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico at the age of 114 years and 272 days.
Frances Shand Kydd - Mother of the late Princess Diana, who served as the executor of her daughter's estate after her death in 1997, whose recent years were beset by tragedies including the death earlier in 2004 of her son Adam Shand Kydd , and who had lived a reclusive life on a Scottish island, died June 3 at a hospital in Oban, Scotland after a long illness at the age of 68.
Christopher Moseley - Nevada man convicted in the widely-publicized 1998 Las Vegas murder-for-hire slaying of his stepson's girlfriend (whom he blamed for his stepson's drug problems), and who was married to Lisa Dean Moseley, heiress to the du Pont family chemical fortune, died May 25 of natural causes at a federal prison in Butner, North Carolina at the age of 63.
Loyd Sigmon - Divisor of the traffic jam warning system that came to be known as the "SigAlert", which is issued on a Southern California freeway only when one or more lanes of traffic will be blocked for at least half an hour, and is used as an attention grabber by Los Angeles-area traffic reporters, who developed the system in 1955 while working at radio station KMPC that allowed police to notify radio stations via a SigAlert radio signal, and who earned numerous honors for his system, including an entry in the Oxford Dictionary, died June 2 of Parkinson's disease at a nursing home in Bartlesville, Oklahoma at the age of 95.
James Neil Tucker - South Carolina man sentenced to death in 1992 for the killing of two women over a total of $34, who escaped three times from prison during his sentence and last month tried to escape from death row by threatening a guard with a safety razor blade melted into a toothbrush, was executed on May 28 in the electric chair at the state prison in Columbia, becoming the first person in the nation to die by electrocution in more than a year, and the first in South Carolina since 1996. He was 47 years old.

Business and Science
Umberto Agnelli - Chairman of the Italian industry giant Fiat Group which owns the car making unit Fiat, luxury carmaker Ferrari, and a number of other companies, who stepped into the limelight of the company in February, 2003 after a lifetime in the shadow of flamboyant relatives and was part of a prominent family that yielded its influence for more than a half century with a jet set lifestyle often compared to the Kennedy's, but whose company today is faced with financial troubles, striking workers, and threat of foreclosure on its more than $3 billion in loans, died of lymphoma on May 27 outside Turin, Italy. He was 69 years old.
Joel Dean - Half of the team Dean and DeLuca, founders of the gourmet and specialty foods stores that bear their name, whose 19 stores, the first of which opened in 1977, were inspired by Old World food traditions and defined fancy food traditions in the late 20th century, died at the age of 73 on May 24 in New York as the result of a staph infection.
John H. Hopps - Physicist and one of the U.S's top African-Americans in technology, who spent the majority of his career at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he was the chief of photonics (the study of light energy), and who served as director of the division of materials sciences at the National Science Foundation in Washington, D.C. in 1992, died May 14 at a hospital in Bethesda, Maryland of acute respiratory failure at the age of 65.
Dr. Charles Kelman - Ophthalmologist who developed the groundbreaking cataract surgery procedure known as phacoemulsification, in which a surgeon uses a vibrating, ultrasonic tip to break up the cataract that affects vision and suction it out with a small needle (prior to this procedure, cataract removal required a 10 day hospital stay after a painful operaiton), whose technique has been improved upon and is now used to remove tumors from the brain and spinal cord in children, and who was awarded the National Medal of Technology from George H.W. Bush in 1992, died June 1 of lung cancer in Boca Raton, Florida at the age of 74.
Ira Koger - Real estate developer who helped pioneer the office park concept and headed Koger Properties, which produced more than 325 office buildings in 23 cities throughout the Southeast and Southwest yielding about $150 million in annual rent, who was once was indicted on tax evasion charges, only to have the case suspended when a federal judge ruled that his affliction with sleep apnea made him unable to stand trial, and who later became a leading contributor to the arts community, died of complications from a staph infection on May 29 in Atlantic Beach, Florida. He was 91 years old.
Scott Mooring - Texas entrepreneur who along with college buddy W.G. Blackmon started Blackmon-Mooring Steamatic, which grew from a two man operation into a worldwide company that revolutionized the post-catastrophe restoration business, along with patenting a steam cleaning process, died May 18 in Fort Worth, Texas after a long illness at the age of 83.
Josephine Munson - Founder of Connecticut-based Munson's Chocolates, started in 1946 with her husband Ben by making batches of wafers and ribbon candy out of the sugar rations they received at the end of WWII, and which grew into Connecticut's largest retail chocolate manufacturer, died May 25 in Florida of natural causes. She was 96.
Frank Newman - Influential education reformer who headed the Education Commission of the States during the 1980's and 90's, who pushed colleges towards more flexibility to cater to working adults and urged schools to make better use of technology in teaching, who was one of the education reformers chosen to receive part of Walter H. Annenberg's $500 million grant to improve education in America in 1993, and whose 1969 "The Newman Report" on education reform suggested numerous changes that are all part of the present day higher education system, died May 29 of melanoma in Providence, Rhode Island at the age of 77.
Martin Plamondon - Cartographer who painstakingly researched and mapped the 7,400-mile route that Lewis and Clark traveled beginning in 1804 from Illinois to the Pacific Ocean in Oregon, and who published two volumes of "Lewis and Clark Trail Maps - A Cartographic Reconstruction" (the third volume is to be published in July, 2004), died May 26 in Minnehaha, Washington of disorders attributed to exposure to anhydrous ammonia from a mapping system he used in the 1970's. He was 58.
Ronald Prokopy - Entomologist who developed a bio-degradable and ecologically sound means of controlling insect pests on small fruits, particularly apples, cutting down drastically the need for use of multiple pesticides, died of cardiopulmonary arrest on May 14 in Greenfield, Massachusetts at the age of 68.
Robert P. Sharp - Geologist and leading authority on the surfaces of the Earth and Mars, and head of the geological sciences division at the California Institute of Technology for more than 15 years, who was awarded the National Medal of Science, America's highest scientific honor, and was once named one of 10 outstanding U.S. college teachers by Life magazine, died on May 25 in Santa Barbara, California at the age of 92.