AUGUST
1999
OBITUARIES
ED LOVE, ARTIST AND PROFESSOR
Edward Arnold Love, sculptor and Florida
State University art professor, died of a heart attack on March
22. Love was born on September 21, 1936. He earned a B.F.A. in
1966 and an M.F.A. in 1967 from California State University at
Los Angeles. He also studied at the University of Uppsala in
Sweden as a postgraduate fellow.
In 1969, he joined the faculty of the department of art at Howard
University, where he was seen as an inspirational force for 18
years.
From 1987 to 1990, he was the founding dean of the art division
of the New World School of the Arts in Miami.
In 1990, he became professor of art and director of undergraduate
studies at Florida State University.
After his death, The Ed Love Visiting Professorship in Black
Studies was created and a sculpture garden in his name is being
planned.
As an artist, Love exhibited extensively in the United States
and abroad. He had solo exhibitions at the Corcoran Gallery of
Art in Washington, D.C., The Forum in St. Louis, Brickell Square
in Miami and numerous American and European universities.
Love's importance as an artist was described in stories in Art
in America, The New York Times, Village Voice, The Washington
Post, The Los Angeles Times, The Atlanta Journal/Constitution
and many more.
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DR. BOLIEK, ZOOLOGIST
Dr. Mildred Irene Boliek, 91, a Florida
State zoologist for almost 30 years, died March 20.
She was born in Hickory, N.C., and received a B.A. from the University
of North Carolina at Greensboro, followed by an M.A. and Ph.D.
from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
She was the second woman to be awarded a Ph.D. in zoology
from the University of North Carolina. She also had a graduate
minor in hydrobiology and in botany.
In 1936, Dr. Boliek joined the faculty of Florida State College
for Women in Tallahassee, advancing to associate professor of
zoology.
At her retirement in 1965, she was named professor emeritus.
ROBERT DAILEY, ANTHROPOLOGIST
Dr. Robert C. Dailey passed away on
April 29 after suffering a stroke.
Dr. Dailey was born in Wisconsin and received a bachelor's degree
from Carroll College in Waukesha, Wisc., and a master's and doctorate
from the University of Toronto. He was chairman of the anthropology
department at Toronto before coming to FSU in 1967.
He was chairman of the FSU anthropology department from 1972
to 1975 and again from 1981 to 1984.
His early field work was in modern Canadian Native American
communities and the osteology of Canadian and Midwest prehistoric
populations.
He was one of the earliest active human osteologists in Florida.
He was a pioneer in what has become an important part of physical
anthropology/forensic anthropology and forensic archaeology.
A textbook he helped develop on forensic archaeology is still
in use.
From the early 1980s until his retirement, he taught a forensic
anthropology class for law enforcement professionals from across
this country and Canada. He is afforded unparalleled admiration
and affection in the law enforcement community.
In addition to his forensic classes, he was an anthropological
"Renaissance man," and his classes ranged from the
history of anthropology to French Structuralism and Levi-Strauss
and human locomotor systems.
Many students remember Dr. Dailey as one of the best instructors
they ever had at FSU or any other university. Dr. Dailey left
an indelible mark on this university and its anthropology students.
Many of them regarded his influence as pivotal in their personal
and professional lives and many went on to become professional
anthropologists.
ARTS LEADER LUCILLA HOUSEWRIGHT
Lucilla Gumm Housewright, arts philanthropist
and civic leader, died April 11 at the age of 85.
She and her husband - Wiley Housewright, dean emeritus of Florida
State University's music school - endowed one of Florida State's
first eminent scholar chairs. It brought to FSU artists and scholars
of a stature and number that had never been possible before.
In 1985, Lucilla Housewright donated $2 million as seed money
for a new performance hall for FSU.
The Housewrights moved from Austin, Texas, to Tallahassee in
1947, when Wiley Housewright joined the Florida State music faculty.
He was music dean from 1966 to 1979.
Lucilla Gumm was born in Fort Worth, Texas. She studied piano
and performed with distinction. After graduating from the University
of Texas with a French degree, she taught elementary school near
Fort Worth, where she met and married Wiley Housewright, then
a high-school music teacher.
At FSU, she was involved with many of the music students and
their activities. She was an enthusiastic gardener, a master
contract bridge player and an avid reader. She had travelled
around the world four times.
Portions of this story were taken from an article by Dorothy
Clifford in the Tallahassee Democrat.
LOUCKS, FLORIDA STATE'S FIRST BASKETBALL COACH
H. Donald Loucks, 84, Florida State's
first basketball coach and tennis coach, died April 6.
Dr. Loucks coached the FSU men's basketball team in its first
season, 1947-48.
He coached the FSU tennis team for several years beginning in
1947. The FSU tennis courts are named in his honor.
Dr. Loucks taught physical education at FSU and served 10
years as dean of men before his retirement in 1980. He was inducted
into FSU's Hall of Fame.
He earned a Ph.D. in physical education from Indiana University.
He and his wife of 61 years, Mary Etta, were Meals on Wheels
volunteers for about 15 years.
QUINTERO, STAGE DIRECTOR AND PROFESSOR
Condensed from The New York Times
Jose Quintero, the director whose reverent
stagings of "The Iceman Cometh" and "Long Day's
Journey Into Night" led to a worldwide revival of interest
in the Nobel Prize plays of Eugene O'Neill, died (February 26).
He was 74 and lived in Sarasota, Fla.
As a founder of Circle in the Square, Mr. Quintero was also a
major contributor to the renaissance in Off Broadway theater
that began soon after World War II and continued into the 1960s.
It was Circle in the Square's 1952 production of Tennessee
Williams's "Summer and Smoke," directed by Mr. Quintero
and starring a relatively unknown actress named Geraldine Page,
that changed Off Broadway from a small but interesting Greenwich
Village phenomenon to a theatrical movement of national importance.
Jose Quintero was born in Panama City on Oct. 16, 1924, the day
after O'Neill's 37th birthday; the proximity of their birthdays
would become important to Mr. Quintero, who later in life always
celebrated both.
He was one of four children of Carlos Rivera Quintero, a Spaniard
of humble origins who moved to Panama and prospered, and the
former Consuelo Palmerola, who came from a wealthy family.
His childhood was not happy. His father wanted a daughter to
go with two sons, and was disappointed by his birth. He disapproved
of a boy whose skin was darker than anyone else's in the family.
"From birth I was branded a disaster," Mr. Quintero
once recalled. (After being diagnosed with throat cancer,) Mr.
Quintero learned to use a mechanical voice box and continued
his work as vigorously as ever, beginning with the 1988 revival
of "Long Days Journey."
He even created a new career as a lecturer and university
professor, dividing his year between the University of Houston
and Florida State University.
PSYCHOLOGIST MAY HELPED COMMUNITY IN MANY WAYS
By Dr. Ellen Berler
Associate chair
Department of psychology
FSU Professor Emeritus Jack G. May Jr., 68, died May 10. He was a member of the psychology department faculty from 1963 to 1994. He received a B.A. from Emory University and a Ph.D. from Indiana University. Dr. May was on active duty in the U.S. Air Force from 1951 to 1956 and on reserve duty from 1956 to 1968.
Dr. May was a devoted advocate for mentally retarded persons. He was actively involved in the National Association for Retarded Children, as well as the Florida and Leon County chapters. As such, he led and participated in numerous committees, and was president of the state and local chapters.
Dr. May was instrumental in developing guidelines for the
use of behavior modification with developmentally disabled people.
The guidelines were adopted by the state of Florida and served
as a model for many other states.
He established innovative teaching and research programs in local
service agencies. For example, he established a highly progressive
behavior-modification ward at Florida State Hospital. He also
established the first formal behavior modification program in
Florida when he and two colleagues began the FSU Research School
for Retarded Children in 1965.
Those and other programs established by Dr. May served the
people of Florida as well as FSU undergraduate and graduate students
who gained practical and research experience. Thirty students
received their doctoral degrees in clinical psychology under
Dr. May's supervision.
Dr. May also maintained a private practice in Tallahassee, establishing
the Tallahassee Pain and Stress Management Institute.
SHIRLEY CHERRY, DESIGN PROFESSOR
Shirley Mighell Cherry, a retired professor of fashion design at Florida State University, died April 2. She was the author of "Sew Your Own With Fashion Appeal."
A native of Sugar Grove, Ill., she had lived in Tallahassee since 1969 and was a member of the Florida Watercolor Society and American Home Economics Association.
STRAUBINGER, COLLEGE OF EDUCATION
Donald Lee Straubinger, 72, an educator
at Florida State, died February 17.
A native of Rockford, Ohio, he had lived in Tallahassee since
1966. He was a Navy veteran of World War II and an Air Force
veteran of the Korean War.
He was an educator at the Federal Correctional Institution until his retirement in 1976. He worked at the Center for Instructional Development, College of Education, at Florida State University until his retirement in 1987.
LEE FRANCIS MAINELLA
Lee Francis Mainella, 53, a co-host
of "Capitol Update," a daily live newscast about the
Florida Legislature that runs for two months each year on WFSU-TV/Florida
Channel, died March 31.
In 1991 Mr. Mainella opened the Florida Art Center and Gallery
in Havana.
He was in his second season as host of "Capitol Update."
A native of Rhode Island, he came to Tallahassee in 1977 as anchor
of ABC-affiliate WECA (now WTXL).