OCTOBER 2000
OBITUARIES
Woodrow W.O. Beauchamp Jr
Levy County Circuit Judge Woodrow W.O. Beauchamp Jr., 60, a graduate
of Florida State University, died of kidney cancer July 19 in
Gainesville.
Judge Beauchamp, born and raised in Chiefland, Fla., was respected as a "salt-of-the-earth" man who was religious and treated everybody the same, from the janitor to the governor.
He was an assistant attorney general in Tallahassee from 1966 to 1969 and then was in private practice in Tallahassee until 1973, when he was appointed county judge in Levy County. In 1993, he became a circuit judge in Levy County.
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Marshall Rudolph Colberg
Marshall Rudolph Colberg, 87, died August 1 in Crawfordville.
A native of Chicago, he had lived in Tallahassee since 1950, when he came to Florida State as an economist. On the faculty until 1984, he served as chairman of the department of economics, director of the Center for Economic Education, associate director of the Center of Yugoslav-American Studies, Research and Exchanges. He was also a guest lecturer at the University of Belgrade.
"He was a very distinguished scholar and cherished by many people," said George Masesich, a longtime friend and colleague in the economics department.
"He was very reserved in many ways and not pushywith people, but he was very accomplished in his work."
Colburg
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Carl L. Davis
Carl L. Davis, 69, died July 18. A native of Walton County, he
had lived in Tallahassee since 1954.
He was an Army veteran of the Korean War and was a mechanical engineer with the physics department in the instruments shop at Florida State University for 28 years until his retirement.
William Russell Mote
In the first half of his career, William Russell Mote made his
fortune and caught his half-ton fish.
In the second half of his career, beginning in 1960, he supported
and ran a marine research laboratory in Sarasota.
Many times before he died July 18, at age 93, Mote had explained that "we've been taking from the sea for a long time, and it's about time we put something back."
He was president of the Mote Marine Labora-tory for more than 30 years.
He said he'd never had time to worry about college degrees, and FSU gave him an honorary one in 1996.
He gave Florida State $1 million in 1994 for an eminent scholar chair in fisheries ecology and enhancement and for the Mote Marine Laboratory.
He gave the faculty a way to spend six months at FSU and six months at the marine laboratory; he gave internships to graduate students; and he supported a symposium on fisheries ecology.
Dr. Mote grew up in Tampa. He became a sports fisherman and
founded the profitable Republic Carloading and Distributing Co.
in New York.
In 1957, in Peru, he caught a 1,180-pound black marlin.
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Barron B. Scarborough
Dr. Barron B. Scarborough, 82, died June 25 in Shreveport, La.
A native of Comer, Ga., Dr. Scarborough earned his bachelor's
degree at the University of Georgia. After serving in the Army
in World War II, he returned to the University of Georgia to
earn a master's degree. In 1952, he earned a doctorate from Purdue
University and In 1957, joined the Florida State University faculty
as assistant professor of psychology.
He was promoted to associate professor in 1959 and professor in 1965. He retired in 1989 and was named professor of psychology emeritus.
During his years at FSU, Dr. Scarborough created the Pictorial Interest Inventory, an instrument to assist in career counseling, and published basic research papers on a variety of topics, including the effects of radiation on conditioned responses in rats.
He also served as vice chairman of the psychology department for many years.