FEBRUARY MARCH 1999 
IN MEMORIAM
BOSCH LEAVES LEGACY IN ARTS
By Patricia Rose
FSU associate professor, art history
Professor Emerita Gulnar Kheirallah Bosch died October 9 following a lengthy illlness. She was a member of the art department faculty of Florida State College for Women from 1941 to 1946 and returned to Tallahassee in 1960 to serve as head of the art department at Florida State University until her retirement in 1977.
Professor Bosch was educated at Princeton University and New York University and earned a doctorate from the University of Chicago's Oriental Institute.
She taught courses and seminars in Far Eastern art, in Central Asian art and in Islamic art.
She was instrumental in the establishment of the Florence Study Center and served as its director in 1967-1968.
She developed the strengths of the art department, including the art history program, which was part of the art department at that time. After retirement, she continued to travel to study sites in the Near East, she was active in support of the developing art history department and she supported the arts in the Tallahassee community.
She was a Fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies and received the First Distinguished Service Award of the Southeastern College Art Conference in 1974. In 1978 she received the Governor's Award for the Arts from the Fine Arts Council of Florida.
SARAH E. HERNDON
Dr. Sarah E. Herndon, 96, died December 8. She lived in Tallahassee for 64 years and was on the English department faculty at Florida State College for Women and Florida State University from 1928 until her retirement in 1972.
Involved in the college's transition to Florida State University, she developed graduate programs and was the first director of the humanities program. Known for her unfailing good humor, Dr. Herndon remained involved with the English department long after her retirement.
Dr. Herndon graduated from Salem College in 1924. In 1927 she earned a master's degree at Columbia University in New York and in 1945 earned a Ph.D. from New York University.
WILLIS DEKALB VEAL
Dr. Willis DeKalb Veal, 63, died October 8 in Tallahassee. A native of Troy, Ala., he received a bachelor's degree from Troy State University in 1961. He earned a master's degree and a Ph.D. in education from Florida State University and taught economics and social studies for 20 years at FSU's Florida High School.
He was director of Florida State's Teacher Education Center for four years and was an associate professor with FSU's College of Education until his death.
His career goals included making sure that Florida's students received the highest quality of education from their teachers and that teachers operated in the best possible environment .
BIOLOGIST HERBERT TAYLOR
By Michael Kasha
R.O. Lawton Distinguished Professor
Institute of Molecular Biophysics
James Herbert Taylor, Florida State University professor emeritus of biology, died in his home in Tallahassee on the evening of December 29, 1998. He was born January 16, 1916, in Corsicana, Texas.
Dr. Taylor made notable contributions to the science of molecular genetics, of which he was one of the original developers. He proved in work done as a Columbia University professor, in collaboration with colleagues at the Brookhaven National Laboratory, that DNA in higher organisms preserves its continuity as unbroken molecular chains during replication. This was one of the first experiments to confirm the Watson-Crick model of replication. The replication experiments were designed using a tritium-labeled DNA base (thymidine), the radioactive isotope of hydrogen permitting autoradiography tracing of the mechanisms. Some 'crossovers' from one DNA strand to the other were observed, leading to the concept of "semi-conservative" replication of DNA.
He was a member of an organizing group that launched the influential American Society for Cell Biology, and was president in 1969-70.
Taylor was appointed professor of molecular biology in the Institute of Molecular Biophysics of the Florida State University in 1964, and served as director from 1985-90.
Dr. Taylor maintained an active research program throughout his academic career. He edited a notable series of collected papers in "Molecular Genetics," published between 1964 and 1979 and a reprint volume, and "Perspectives in Molecular Biology," in 1965, all under the Academic Press imprint.
He was recognized for his original researches by election to membership
in the National Academy of Sciences in 1971, and by his appointment to the
R.O. Lawton Distinguished Professorship at the Florida State University.
He retired from his position May 1990.
KELLY WESLEY HUNT
Dr. Kelly Hunt, professor emeritus of English at Florida State University, died on November 4, in Tallahassee. He was a retired Navy Commander and served as a navigation officer in World War II.
He won many awards in his field, including distinguished professor of the year from FSU and The National Council of Teachers of English Distinguished Research Award. His methods of language analysis are used by the Princeton Educational Testing Service, and his theories of language development have been incorporated in four major textbook series.
Hunt was devoted to the preservation of Florida's beaches and rivers and was an avid gardener, enjoying membership in the Rose, Camellia and Orchid societies.
BERNICE OLIVER BEVIS
Bernice Oliver Bevis, 81, died November 5.
She graduated from Florida State College for Women in 1937 and went on to Columbia University graduate school where she graduated in 1939. She married Lewis Richard Bevis in 1940.
Mrs. Bevis was a teacher at Leon High School for more than 20 years. She served as housemother in the women's dormitory at FSCW during World War II. She worked alongside her husband, a pharmacist, at Hicks Drug Store, which they owned for more than 25 years.
She is survived by her husband of 58 years and a daughter and two sons, all FSU graduates.